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The Valley Today |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 645 Words, 4,011 Characters |
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Not much remains of the Hadley of 1675. The stockade is long gone, but the West Street common remains and is still, as it was more than three hundred years ago, bounded at the north and south ends by the Connecticut River as it loops around the town from Middle Street west. Close to Middle Street, on Russell Road (named after Reverend Russell, the town's first minister), is Hopkins Academy. The ins...
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...swords, and a carpetbag, as well as a cylinder used in a lottery to draft soldiers for the Civil War in Massachusetts. The Revolution is remembered with artifacts including flintlocks and a black leather tricorn hat. One of the museum's best-known artifacts is a fortified door from the Sheldons' house. A gaping hole, made by tomahawks during the 1704 raid, yawns wide at the center.
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