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Fort River bridge
A horse-drawn carriage faces away from the camera approaching the covered Fort River bridge seen in the middleground. A little fence leads up to it, some bare trees are scattered around, a line of telegraph poles line the right side of the photograph…
Cornfield by the Roger Johnson house
Roger Johnson house in Hockanum is in the middle ground. A cornfield takes up the whole foreground, some trees on the edges of the photograph, the Holyoke Mayor Parker's house visible in the distance with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Old Hockanum Ferry Pier
The ferry pier sticking out into the Connecticut river with two row boats tied up to a tree by the shore.
The long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum
Remains of a pier on the Northampton side of the Connecticut river, with a row boat pulled up on the shore. Farms visible across the river at the foot of Mount Holyoke in the background.
Flooded farms
Photograph taken from a dry higher ground behind the Roger Johnson house looking toward the farms surrounded by flood water in the Northampton meadows.
Memorial Day at Hockanum cemetery
Two well dressed Civil War Veterans, each holding a bouquet, looking down at a gravestone with flag mounted in front of it and flowers around the base of the flag. Well kept picket fence at the rear of the graveyard. Connecticut river and Mount Tom…
Mount Holyoke station
Two men stand by the roadside in front of a building halfway between house, barn for horses, wagons, and steam engines, and station at lower end of covered track to Summit House.
View from the fields
A view of a house in the middleground, partly obscured by a large tree on the right side and bushes in front of the house. A second, even larger tree stands behind the house. The scene is reflected in water in the foreground.
A man by the Old Bridge
View down the length of the covered bridge. A man, possibly Richard Johnson, stands, leaning an arm against one corner looking over at the stream below. A sign over the bridge is a warning about a six ton weight limit and anyone crossing the bridge…
Mowing hay
A farmer, identified as Eliot Johnson, on a mowing machine pulled by a couple horses across the road from a farmhouse, identified as belonging to Oscar Johnson. A couple large trees adorn the image on either side with Mount Holyoke in the background.
Planting in the field
Three farm workers planting in a field at the foot of Mt. Holyoke. A barn is behind them on the hillside.
Hockanum ferry, Mount Holyoke
A ferry carries a horse-drawn carriage across the Connecticut river. Two women and a girl sit on the carriage, one holding a parasol. Two gentlemen, one in the front, one in the back guide the ferry as a third gentleman stands looking across to the…
A group of farm buildings
A house and attached barns seen across a field. Mount Holyoke visible in the background. (February 2022 - Believed to be the Drozdal Farm at 133 Hockanum Road.)
November 1927 flood, Roger Johnson place
Flood surrounded barn in Hockanum and the flooded Connecticut River seen from a field. A house nearer the camera is just high enough not to be flooded. Normal banks of the Connecticut river are usually delineated by the two rows of trees just to the…
Oscar Johnson buildings at the foot of a mountain
A series of barns in Hockanum behind a small rise in the ground. A large tree stands behind the buildings with Mount Holyoke in the background.