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Northampton (City and countyseat)

a city and countyseat of Hampshire co., Mass.; on the Connecticut river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, and the NORTH ANDOVER Boston and Maine railroads; 17 miles N. W. of Springfield. It comprises the villages of West Farms, Mount Tom, Smith's Ferry, Loudville, Leeds, Florence, and Bay State. Here are the Burnham and Capen schools, Clarke Institute for Deaf Mutes (endowed by John Clarke with $3,000,000), SMITH COL- LEGE (q. v.), the State Lunatic Asylum, Dickinson Hospital, Old Ladies ' Home , the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Hall, the First Congregational Church, of which Jonathan Edwards was pastor, libraries, People's 's Institute, clubs the Hillyer Art Gallery. The city has waterworks, electric street railroads, electric lights, a number of National and savings banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The manufactures include caskets, shovels, hoes, furniture, paper, brushes, pocket-books, wire, baskets, caskets, shovels, hoes, furniture, paper, , bicycles, sewing machines, buttons, silk goods, oil stoves, sewing silk, cutlery, Pop. cotton and woolen goods, etc. Pop. goods, etc. (1910) 19,431; (1920) 21,951.