Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . 1885, but withina year was rebuilt upongreatly enlarged plansand is now one of themost commodious aswell as one of the mostfamous schools of itsclass in New Lyon M
Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . 1885, but withina year was rebuilt upongreatly enlarged plansand is now one of themost commodious aswell as one of the mostfamous schools of itsclass in New Lyon Memorial, erected by Mrs. C. W. Dale in hfinor of her father, was dedicatedMarch 28, 1882, is a superb structure, and contains some 5,000 or 6,000volumes of choice literature to which the public has free access. TheMemorial building is the result of a movement on the part of theSoldiers Memorial Association on the one hand and of the citizensfor a town hall on the other. R. M. Reynolds donated the land, thetown paid for the structure proper, and then Messrs. J. L., R. M., andTheodore Reynolds—father and sons—fitted up and furnished it at theirown expense. It was made ready and occupied in 1885. Marcus KeepPost, G. A. R., has spacious and elegant rooms on the second floor, whilethe upper story is set apart as a great public hall. Among the note-worthy embellishments for which the village is indebted to private. NKW CHURCH. l62 IMAM) .MA».\CIirsi I IS munificence is the Cusliman fountain, also of tjranite, erected by S. Esq. Of handsome and commodious churches and schoolsthere are a number, all well attended, for Monson is an orderly and moral
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