Savoy
Massachusetts, 1890
Savoy
is situated on the southern slope and valley of Hoosac Mountain,
in the northeastern part of Berkshire County, 133 miles from Boston.
Florida, from which it is in part separated by Cold River, bounds
it on the north; Hawley with corners of Charlemont and Plainfield
on the east; Windsor on the south; and Cheshire and Adams on the
west. The territory is about six miles square. The assessed area
is 21,311 acres. There are some 12,000 acres of forest. Its highlands
constitute the watershed between the Deerfield, Westfield and
Hoosac rivers; and the streams, though of small volume, afford
in their rapid descent numerous small powers. The land is, for
the most part, too rocky, rough and mountainous for tillage, but
suitable for grazing. The soil is a heavy loam.
The
aggregate product of the 159 farms in 1885 was valued at $88,
941. The neat cattle numbered 968; the sheep 384; and the horses
182. The manufactures are lumber, boxes, carriages and food preparations;
the total value of goods made in the year mentioned being $10,452.
The population was 691, of whom 200 were legal voters. The valuation
in 1888 was $178,728, with a tax of $19 on $1,000. There were
160 assessed dwelling-houses. The nine public school-houses were
valued at some $2,000. A social and a school library have together
about 300 volumes. The churches are a Baptist, a Methodist and
a Second Advent. "Savoy" post-office, at Savoy Hollow,
in the south part of the town, is seven miles from the railroad
station in Adams. The other post-office is Savoy centre; and the
third village is North Savoy.
This
town, then known as "No. Six" was granted to the heirs
of Capt. Samuel Gallop and his company for services and
sufferings in an expedition to Canada in 1690. The first white
family settled here in September, 1777; and in 1787 a sufficient
number had come to organize a Baptist church. The town was incorporated
February 20, 1797; the name of a town in the Swiss Alps being
adopted as appropriate to its mountainous features. Savoy furnished
71 soldiers for the Union cause in the late war, of whom 9 were
lost.
pp.
584-585 in Nason and Varney's Massachusetts Gazetteer, 1890
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RESOURCE
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CONTRIBUTOR |
Savoy,
founded in 1797, it had no parent town. There are no published
records.
February 20, 1797, incorporated as a town.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Suggested
Reading:
"Taking
the High Road" a 200 year history of Hilltown, Savoy,
Mass 1797 to 1997.
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BIRTHS
(to 1850)
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The
LDS has microfilm of vital records of Savoy, Mass.
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Also
- The LDS has microfilm of vital records of Savoy, Mass.
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DEATHS
(to 1850)
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The
LDS has microfilm of vital records of Savoy, Mass.
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CEMETERIES
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Babbit
Cemetery
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Barnard
Road Cemetery
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see
Spruce Corner Cemetery |
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Brier
Cemetery
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see
Spruce Corner Cemetery |
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Carter
Burying Ground
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Comfort
Bates Lot
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Deming
Burial Ground
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Dunham
Burying Ground
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Estes
Burial Ground
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Hathaway
Burial Ground
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Ingraham
Cemetery
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Millard
Burial Ground
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Miller
Cemetery
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New
State Cemetery
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Remington
Lot
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Second
Hathaway Burial Ground
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Spruce
Corner Cemetery
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also
known as Barnard Road Cemetery or Brier Cemetery |
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Staples
Burial Ground
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Starkes
Lot
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Tomb
Cemetery
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Tower
Cemetery
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Turner
Cemetery
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MAPS
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Maps
from "County Atlas of Berkshire, Massachusetts. From
actual survey by and under the Direction of F. W. Beers,
Published by R. T. White & Co., 36 Vesey Street, New
York, 1876." Some maps have names of residents.
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