Old Buildings Are Moved Out of Quabbin
Area
Some of the historic buildings which have been moved out of the Quabbin area
and set up in other places. Top left, the Crosby house, Enfield, moved to Amherst;
top right, the Joseph Walker place, Prescott, moved to East Hamilton; upper
middle left, the Gilbert house, Enfield, moved to Staten Island, N. Y.; upper
middle right; Prescott church, moved to South Hadley; lower middle left, the
Robert Field house, Enfield, moved to Dorset, Vt.; lower middle right, old Prescott
Tavern, moved to Storrowtown, Eastern States Exposition grounds, West Springfield;
bottom left, Moore's Hall, New Salem, moved to Ware; bottom right, Enfield church,
moved to Palmer for Grange Hall. |
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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: To accommodate the creation of the Quabbin reservoir, four Massachusetts towns (Dana, Enfield, Prescott, and Greenwich) and associated villages were unincorporated. In areas to be flooded, buildings were demolished or moved, timber was harvested, and many grave sites were transferred to new sites. While relocated buildings were preserved, their built environment was lost. They can no longer be understood within their original context and landscape, disrupting our ability to study regional variations in construction or design. In some cases, buildings moved from a rural or village setting to a city or suburban environment. Other buildings were placed in Storrowton on the Eastern States Exposition grounds in West Springfield, MA. Storrowton is a collection of nineteenth-century buildings from throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire constructed into a museum village.
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"Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area" article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
publisher Unknown |
maker Ellen Billings (1871-1962) |
date 1936-1946 |
location South Deerfield, Massachusetts |
width 8.25" |
height 11.75" |
process/materials printed paper, ink |
item type Personal Documents/Scrapbook |
accession # #L05.146 |
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