Amherst tax records, 1830
Property tax -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Tax record book showing property owned and its value.
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1830s
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Documents
Valleys of erosion on Mount Holyoke
Amherst (Mass.) -- Aerial views
Amherst (Mass.)
Looking south from the columns of Mount Pleasant Institute across open landscape toward Amherst center. Amherst College, Amherst Academy, and the Village Church are visible and the Holyoke Range rises in the background.
This plate is an illustration in the geological survey of Massachusetts completed by Edward Hitchcock.
Van-Lennep, Henry J. (Henry John), 1815-1889
B.W. Thayer & Co.
Massachusetts. Geological Survey. Final report on the geology of Massachusetts. 1841. Plate 6
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Circa 1835
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Photographs
First Church Articles of Faith
First Congregational Church (Amherst, Mass.)
Church polity
Amherst (Mass.)
Articles of faith and government of the First Church in Amherst, Mass. Adopted February 13, 1834. Printed by J. S. and C. Adams, 1850.
First Church (Amherst, Mass.)
Jones Library Special Collections
1850
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Documents
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Mount Pleasant Classical Institute in Amherst
Schools
Education
Amherst (Mass.)
This institution offered boys a classical education and was a well-known school throughout the Connecticut Valley and beyond in the 1830s. The school closed around 1836 and remained empty for awhile. The wings were removed to other areas of town. One became a tenement on North Pleasant Street known as the "Bee Hive." Other sections were removed to Northampton Road. John A. Nash opened a school in the remaining central part of the building in 1846 (Carpenter & Morehouse, page 271).
The illustrator, Liberato Cardella, was listed as instructor in Italian, music, and drawing at the Institute in May 1831. Cf. Groce and Wallace. The New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in America (New Haven, 1957), p. 108.
Cardella, Liberato
Pendleton's Lithography
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Circa 1835
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Prints
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Autumnal scenery, view in Amherst
Fall foliage
Amherst (Mass.)
Lithograph created from the original painting by Orra White Hitchcock. View looking west from the Pelham Hills and showing East Village in the foreground, and the center of town and Amherst College in the background.
Hitchcock, Orra White, 1796-1863
Plate II of Plates Illustrating the Geology and Scenery of Massachusetts / by Edward Hitchcock, 1833
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Circa 1833
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A map of Amherst with a view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution
Amherst (Mass.) -- Maps
Amherst (Mass.)
Full title: A map of Amherst. With a view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution. By Alonzo Gray & Charles B. Adams. Amherst College, May 1833. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.
Pendleton's Lithography published many Massachusetts town plans starting with Lynn and Saugus in 1829 and continuing to 1836. The plans had been drawn at the request of the State Legislature to facilitate the making of an accurate map of the state, which was eventually published by Borden in 1844. The town plans are some of the earliest published using lithography. This map of Amherst is especially attractive, with a large view of the College and Mount Pleasant Institution. Notable property owners are shown, including Prof. Hitchcock and E. Dickinson (the father of Emily Dickinson). Shows also churches, schools, houses, factories, mills, hotels, woodland, alluvial land, ponds, etc. Relief shown by hachures. With black top and bottom rollers. Map is without color. Description courtesy of the David Rumsey Collection.
Adams, Charles B.; Gray, Alonzo
Pendleton's Lithography, Boston
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1833
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