Hatfield, Massachusetts Hatfield, Massachusetts Hatfield Memorial Town Hall Hatfield Memorial Town Hall Official seal of Hatfield, Massachusetts Hatfield is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
Part of the town is encompassed in the census-designated place of Hatfield.
It was formally incorporated as a town in 1670 and has a Board of Selectmen and annual town meeting.
The Hastings family, descendants of English Puritan immigrant Thomas Hastings, was originally settled at Watertown, but inside a generation members of the family had relocated to Hatfield, where they produced a succession of Hatfield physicians, including Dr.
John Hastings (1765 1845). The first Thomas Hastings, aside from serving as physician to Hatfield and encircling communities, was also the town's first schoolteacher. He authored a intact account of the devastating Indian attack on close-by Deerfield in 1704.
Hatfield was also the place of birth and hometown of Sophia Smith (1796-1870), the founder of both Smith Academy (the Hatfield Public High School), and Smith College, the famous women's college.
Hatfield is positioned on the west bank of the Connecticut River at the mouth of the Mill River, 25 miles north of Springfield and about 100 miles west of Boston.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 16.8 square miles (43.6 km ), of which 16.0 square miles (41.5 km ) is territory and 0.8 square mile (2.1 km ) (4.82%) is water.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 20.7% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 29.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $50,238, and the median income for a family was $61,607.
Hatfield has two enhance schools; an elementary school and a high school.
The high school, Smith Academy, is grades 7-12; with just over 190 students, it is the smallest enhance school in the state of Massachusetts.
A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts, in Three Parts, Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field Wells, Published by F.
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