The Town of Agawam is a place of tradition and of opportunity. A convenient location, affordable land and buildings, and a low tax rate allow residents to build good lives and attract those who wish to buy a home or start a business. The highway system and nearby airport link Agawam to the...
Blandford is situated in the eastern foothills of the Green Mountains and is criss-crossed by streams. It is a rural hill town on the historic western corridor between Connecticut and the Housatonic Valley and is on an early route of travel from Springfield to Albany. This was an important...
Brimfield has a picturesque New England town common and a rural setting.
The town has three annual flea markets during which the whole community becomes an open air bazaar and visitors come from all parts of New England to browse among hundreds of acres of stall and counters loaded with antiques,...
Chester, during the late 30's to the 60's, was a small prospering rural community with several flourishing industries: a granite quarry, a stone shed for working the granite, an emery mill now the General Abrasive Treibacker Inc., and the Cortland Grinding Wheels Company. With the exception of the...
The City of Chicopee is located near the junction of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Interstate 91 and is a diverse urban community which serves as the home of Westover Air Force Base. The city has mined its industrial past for present uses, having transformed a number of 19th century industrial...
The Town of East Longmeadow is a suburban industrial town in the Connecticut Valley. It is a hilly town with rich sandstone deposits.
First settled in 1744 by colonists realizing the fertility of the valley's alluvial soil, East Longmeadow early became an industrialized community with the...
Crystal clear mountain streams surrounded by wild blueberies, fresh, tart, crisp Macintosh apples and Granville cheese are the things that make Granville famous. Zoned throughout for agricultural and residential uses, Granville is still a thriving center for potters, visual artists, writers,...
Hampden is a small country town captured by the gentle hills and sloping mountains that surround it. The Scantic River meanders through town and brings reminiscences of the old plowshops, tanneries and blacksmith shops that once edged its shores. The Historical Society, housed in Old Academy Hall,...
Holland is a small town in South Central Massachusetts. It is a largely rural and residential community of about 2100 year-round residents.
Holland has its own elementary school serving some 290 students, and is also part of the five town Tantasqua Regional School District for junior and senior...
The City of Holyoke is located by the Connecticut River where the first of several dams was constructed in 1848 to take advantage of a 57-foot drop in the river level. The water power created by the dam was transferred to new industrial sites along 7.5 miles of hand dug canals. At one point, more...
Longmeadow is an affluent suburban town on the primary corridor between Springfield and Hartford. The town was settled by Springfield residents in the late 1640's and agriculture was the main colonial pursuit. Townspeople continued to turn towards Springfield for industrial, religious and...
The Town of Ludlow is a progressive suburban community located in the northwest corner of the metropolitan area of Springfield. It borders on the cities of Springfield and Chicopee and the towns of Granby and Belchertown, with Westover Industrial Airpark to the northwest.
Monson center is nestled in the Chicopee River valley between east and west steep and rocky hills. The difficulty of traveling over the hills to the center of Brimfield prompted those settlers in the western part of that territory to petition the court for permission to form a new town.
The Town of Montgomery is a rural, residential town nestled 1050 feet above sea level at the town center. It is in Hampden County and bordered on the north by Huntington, on the south by the City of Westfield, on the west by Russell and on the east by Southampton. Situated in the Berkshire...
The Town of Palmer is made up of four separate and distinct villages; Depot Village, Thorndike Village, Three Rivers and Bondsville. There are four separate water districts, three separate fire departments and four separate village centers. In addition, there are some agricultural areas. The...
The Town of Russell, which recently celebrated its bicentennial, is one of the hill towns which have evolved in the foothills of the Berkshires.
Russell's early development was closely tied to water power. Its many brooks feeding into the Westfield River were the early sites of saw mills, leather...
Southwick has evolved from a rural farming community to a bedroom community over the last twenty years. Its close proximity to the cities of Springfield, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut via routes 10, 202 and 57 has generated significant demand for new housing. Additionally, the town...
The City of Springfield is a major urban industrial center of metropolitan status at the junction of regional routes between Boston and New York. The city lies in the Connecticut River Valley, and was originally settled as a private plantation of the Massachusetts Bay colony by William Pynchon in...
The Town of Tolland is a rural hill town in the eastern Berkshire highlands, located on the Farmington River. Only limited agriculture is possible because of the rugged, wooded terrain and marshlands and it is conjectured that until the first documented permanent settlement in 1750, the town was...
Wales is a small upland town located at the headwaters of the Quinnebaug drainage system. It was settled by colonists from Brimfield and Springfield during the mid-18th century. Settlement of the town was late despite grants having been made to Springfield entrepreneurs as early as 1701 because...
The City of Westfield is located in the heart of western Massachusetts.
Westfield provides a pleasing small city atmosphere. With a population of 38,000, Westfield has the second largest land area in the Commonwealth, covering 30,000 acres. Yankee ingenuity and hard work are still sources of...
The Town of Wilbraham offers its residents a beautiful rural setting with easy access to downtown Springfield. During its years of development as suburb adjacent to the city, Wilbraham has maintained a strong sense of community and has preserved large tracts of open space. The town boasts several...