Northampton
Northampton names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Northampton a city and countyseat of Hampshire co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Hampshire co., Mass.; on the Connecticut river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine railroads; 17 miles comprises the N. W. of Springfield. It Farms, Mount Tom, villages of West , Leeds, Flor- Smith's Ferry, Loudville are the Burnence, and Bay State. Here schools, Clarke Instiham and Capen by John tute for Deaf Mutes (endowed Clarke with $3,000,000), SMITH COL- LEGE (q. v.), the State Lunatic Asylum, ' Home Dickinson Hospital, Old Ladies , Sailors' Memorial the Soldiers' and Hall, the First Congregational Church, Jonathan Edwards was pastor, of which , and libraries, People's 's Institute, clubs Hillyer Art Gallery. The city has the waterworks, electric street railroads, lights, a number of National electric and weekly and savings banks, and daily newspapers. The manufactures include caskets, shovels, hoes, furniture, paper, , wire, baskets brushes, pocket-books , buttons, silk bicycles, sewing machines, cutlery, goods, oil stoves, sewing silk, Pop. goods, etc. cotton and woolen (1910) 19,431; (1920) 21,951.
Northampton a parliamentary
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a parliamentary , capand municipal berough of England name, on the ital of the county of same , which is conleft bank of the Nene Grand Junction canal. nected with the Northampton has one of the three rechurches of the counmarkable round try-a Norman structure. The staple shoes for manufacture is boots and currying home and export trade. The on on a large of leather is also carried brass scale. There are also iron and , corn mills, etc. foundries, breweries Iron-stone is found in the neighborhood, Pop. furnaces are at work. Po and smelting (1917) 82,471.
Northampton a borough of Penn- It is on sylvania
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of Penn- It is on sylvania, in Northampton co. Central of New Jersey the and the Lehigh Valley railroads. Pop. (1910) 8,729; (19 (1920) 9,349.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, the Massachusetts Northampton was a factory town of 21,951 people making caskets, shovels, buttons and sewing silk, with the State Lunatic Asylum among its landmarks; that hospital closed in 1993 and its grounds were redeveloped as the Village Hill neighbourhood, the manufacturing has largely gone, and the city of roughly 29,000 is now known chiefly for Smith College, its arts scene and its large LGBTQ community. The Clarke Institute for Deaf Mutes survives as Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, now teaching listening and spoken language rather than operating as the single endowed asylum-style institution described. In England, the boot-and-shoe trade that Collier's called the staple manufacture collapsed through the twentieth century, leaving only a handful of high-end makers, while the town grew past 80,000 to about a quarter of a million and lost its own borough council in 2021, when Northamptonshire was split into two unitary authorities. The Norman round church, one of the three the entry singles out, is still standing as Holy Sepulchre.
Written for this edition, 2026.