icon for Home page
icon for Kid's Home page
icon for Digital Collection
icon for Activities
icon for Turns Exhibit
icon for In the Classroom
icon for Chronologies
icon for My Collection

Online Collection

front
(c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved.
Contact us for information about using this image.



label levels:

Blandford, Massachusetts, was settled by Scots-Irish immigrants in1735 and was incorporated in 1741. It is on the western edge of Hampden County, in the foothills of the Berkshires. Samuel Porter was licensed as a tavern keeper in Blandford from 1795 to 1797. He took over the inn from Rufus Blair, who had run it from 1785 to 1794, and reused the sign by painting over Blair's name, and adding 1795 to the top.

 

top of page

Old Tavern Sign, Blandford

date   1906
process/materials   Postcard
accession #   #1997.08.01.141


Look Closer icon My Collection icon Detailed info icon


ecard icon Send an e-Postcard of this object



See Also...

"Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once" article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper

Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease


button for Side by Side Viewingbutton for Glossarybutton for Printing Helpbutton for How to Read Old Documents

 

Home | Online Collection | Things To Do | Turns Exhibit | Classroom | Chronologies | My Collection
About This Site | Site Index | Site Search | Feedback