Northampton
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- Names
Northampton
Nonotuck City of Northampton
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Original Amerindian site was known as Nonotuck, meaning "middle of the river"; expanded with wool mill 1809, canal to Connecticut 1834, railroad 1845 & Smith College for women 1875; President Calvin Coolidge served as mayor 1909-11 & died here 1933.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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