The schoolhouse was used as a residence for a few years for drivers for Henry Snyder's Express. Tommy Stone's family of four occupied it at one time. There was apparently a second floor; water was obtained from nearby brook.]]> Of use for a future school house display.]]> Also includes names of guests from September 12, 1981; September 17 1988; September 16, 1989; September 19, 1992; 1994; September 23, 1995; September 21, 1996; October 1, 2000 - see continuing guest books. These are all annual meetings.]]> Alice Cudworth Steele was born in Worthington, Mass., in 1803. Now, at the age of ninety-three, she is the holder of Cummington's gold-headed cane as the oldest resident in the town. All her years have been lived in these two hilltowns, so she knows the area well.
She and her late husband, Frank Steele, owned an antique shop in Cummington until the late 1950s. Following that, they collaborated on making miniature rooms that depcted country life in Western Massachusetts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A total of 303 rooms were made, of which seventeen....... (please read more)
"Childhood Memories" is a collectioin of excerpts from "Aunt Teeks in Memory Land:" written by Alice C. Steele, and originally published as four books by the Progressive Club of Windsor, Mass., between 1959 and 1963. With Mrs. Steele's permssion, these excerpts have been edited by Daphne Morris for the Cummington Historical Commisson
The cover depicts the Cudworth Farm on Cudworth Road, Worthington, (currently owned by Jeffrey and Karen Rida). See also.Dan Porter, "Forty Houses.".]]> Schedule B shows payments, charges, losses and distribution of medical and burial expenses. Indicates Eugene Bartlett dug the grave and Brown-Stevens and Fifield made the monument.]]> Schedule B shows payments, charges, losses and distribution of medical and burial expenses. Indicates Eugene Bartlett dug the grave and Brown-Stevens and Fifield made the monument. Household furniture listed on Schedul A includes One bed and bedding, one bedstead, one stove, one clock, one bathrobe, 6 chairs, one bureau, one brass kettle, two iron kettles, one table amounting to $21.50 - Farm tools include One harrow, one cart, one spade, one shovel, one plough, one chain, one iron bar, one saw, one P. Ax, augers, wedges, one shave amounting to $18.00. Papers for Samuel Follet also included (he signs his name Follett).]]> The first map is possibly a blueprint (ozalith) which shows Worthington (population 530) with parts of Cummington, Chesterfield, Peru, Middlefield. The lines around Worthington are drawn in red one location is colored in red. Is this possibly the ozalith map mentioned in a missing record (This is a blueprint (ozalith) map of land owned by Olive Cole and Clarissa Henry)?
The second map is of paper glued onto card stock, copyrighted by Geo. H. Walker and Co. It shows the proposed location of the Huntington and Westfield River Railway, showing possible connections with steam and electric railways in Western MA. According to this map Worthigton would have been involved as there is a red line extending from Huntington to Worthington Center. Both maps are in deteriorated condition
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A third map is a hand drawn sketch of Worthington, colored in green with black, green and red roads titled "Map of Worthington with place of residence of the First Inhabitants." On the map, which is on vellum, is written the following: "The township of Worthington was originally called Plantation #3. On the second day of June 1762 it was sold at auction in Boston to Aaron Willard. Later it was purchased by Col. Worthington of Springfield and Major Barnard of Deerfield. A few of the first settlers came in 1764. They were mainly from the central and eastern parts of Mass. and from Conn. In 1768 this territory was incorporated into a town and called Worthington, in honor of Col. Worthington who induces the early settlers to occupy the land, by the erection of a church and a grist mill, and assigning generous lots of land for ministerial and school purposes." Associated with this map are two papers, one with 76 names and one with notes about Samuel Howe's ownership of the Woodbridge house which was built in 1806 on the site where originally stood the Chapin house, a log cabin built by Samuel Clapp. (see Box 35 for town architecture).]]>