Northampton, Massachusetts This article is about Northampton, Massachusetts.
Northampton, Massachusetts First Church, Main Street, Northampton First Church, Main Street, Northampton Official seal of Northampton, Massachusetts Northampton, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Northampton, Massachusetts - Northampton, Massachusetts The town/city of Northampton (Listeni/n r mpt n/) is the governmental center of county of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of 2012, the estimated total populace of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds) was 28,592. Northampton is known as an academic, artistic, musical, and countercultural hub.
Enumeration demographics, election returns, and other criteria, the website Epodunk rates Northampton as the most politically liberal medium-size town/city (population 25,000 99,000) in the United States. The town/city has a high proportion of inhabitants who identify as gay and lesbian a high number of same-sex homeholds, and is a prominent destination for the LGBT community. Northampton is part of the Pioneer Valley and is one of the northernmost metros/cities in the Knowledge Corridor a cross-state cultural and economic partnership with other Connecticut River Valley metros/cities and towns.
Northampton is considered part of the Springfield Metropolitan Area, one of Western Massachusetts's two separate urbane areas.
Northampton is home to Smith College, Northampton High School, and the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech.
King (1629 1703), one of its initial settlers, or possibly in King's honor, since it is supposed that he came to Massachusetts from Northampton, England, as he was born there. It was in this situation that the territory making up the bulk of undivided Northampton was sold to pioneer from Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1653. Northampton was part of the Equivalent Lands compromise. Its territory would be enlarged beyond the initial settlement, but later portions would be carved up into separate cities, towns, and municipalities.
Southampton, for example, was incorporated in 1775 and encompassed parts of the territories of undivided Montgomery (incorporated in 1780) and Easthampton. Westhampton was incorporated in 1778 and Easthampton in 1809. A section of Northampton called Smith's Ferry was once separated from the rest of the town by the boundaries of Easthampton.
Congregational preacher, theologian and philosopher Jonathan Edwards was a dominant figure in a 1734 Christian revival in Northampton.
But the relapse was brief, and the Northampton revival, which had spread through the Connecticut River Valley and whose fame had reached England and Scotland, was followed in 1739 1740 by the Great Awakening, under the leadership of Edwards. Northampton hosted its own witch trials in the 1700s, although no alleged witches were executed. Members of the Northampton improve were present at the Constitutional Convention. In 1835 Northampton was linked to the ocean by the New Haven and Northampton Canal, but the canal enterprise foundered and after about a decade was replaced by a barns running along the same route. A flood on the Mill River on May 16, 1874, obliterated almost the entire Northampton neighborhood of Leeds. From 1842 until 1846 Northampton was home to a transcendentalist utopian improve of abolitionists.
Called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, the improve believed that the rights of all citizens should be "equal without distinct ion of sex, color or condition, sect or religion".
Hampshire County Courthouse in Northampton, designed by architect H.H.
In 1851 opera singer Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", declared Northampton to be the "Paradise of America", from which Northampton took its nickname The Paradise City.
Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech (formerly the Clarke School for the Deaf) was established in Northampton in 1867.
Smith College for women was established in Northampton in 1871.
Northampton officially became a town/city on September 5, 1883 when voters accepted the City Charter (The act to establish the town/city of Northampton.
Immigrant groups that settled Northampton in large numbers encompassed Irish, Polish, and French-Canadians.
President Calvin Coolidge worked as a lawyer in Northampton and served as the city's mayor from 1910 to 1911. He went on to be a Massachusetts State Senator, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor before becoming Vice President and President.
Although Western Massachusetts lies outside of the Rust Belt geographically, the centrality of commerce and the arts to Northampton's economy left it economically vulnerable, in particular when compounded with the diminish of Springfield's manufacturing sector, Holyoke's paper industry, and massive plant closures in the close-by New York Capital District.
Northampton has a grow cultural center and is a prominent tourist destination.
Since 1981, Northampton has been host to an annual LGBT Parade and Pride event held the first Saturday in May.
Since 1995 Northampton has been home to the twice-yearly Paradise City Arts Festival, held at the Three County Fairgrounds on Memorial Day weekend and Columbus Day weekend.
Northampton has a well-established music scene.
The town/city has a several live music venues, including Bishops Lounge, The Academy of Music, Calvin Theater, Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton Community Music Center, Pearl Street and the Pines Theater.
Since 2004, Northampton has been the site of Django in June, a seven-day Gypsy jazz music camp held annually on the ground of Smith College. Northampton sits on the banks of the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.8 square miles (92.6 km2), of which 34.2 square miles (88.7 km2) is territory and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2), or 4.22%, is water. A total of 21% of the town/city is permanently protected open space. Within Northampton's town/city limits are the villages of Florence and Leeds.
Northampton is bordered to the north by the suburbs of Hatfield and Williamsburg, to the west by Westhampton, to the east by Hadley (across the Connecticut River), and to the south by Easthampton.
The art deco Calvin Coolidge Bridge joins Northampton with Hadley athwart the Connecticut River.
The college town of Amherst is positioned 7.86 miles (12.65 km) east of Northampton, next to Hadley.
Springfield, the Connecticut River Valley's most crowded Massachusetts city, is positioned 15.74 miles (25.33 km) southeast of Northampton.
Boston is positioned 81.57 miles (131.27 km) east of Northampton.
New York City is 131.28 miles (211.27 km) southwest of Northampton.
The Connecticut River's famous Oxbow is inside Northampton's town/city limits, at the northern base of Mount Nonotuck.
Climate data for Northampton, Massachusetts (01060) Northampton has the most lesbian couples per capita of any town/city in the US. The populace density was 833.7 citizens per square mile (321.6/km ).
Northampton's enhance schools include four elementary schools (kindergarten through 5th grade), one middle school (6th to 8th grade), one high school (9th to 12th grade), and one vocational-agricultural high school (9th to 12th grade).
There are a several charter schools and a several private schools in Northampton and encircling towns.
According to the website e - Podunk's Gay Index, which is based on figures from the 2000 US Census, Northampton has a score of 535, vs.
National average score of 100 (i.e., Northampton's populace includes 5.35 times the nationwide average of same-sex unmarried homeholds). Main article: Northampton Public Schools, Massachusetts Northampton is home to Smith College.
Smith students (along with those of the associated Five Colleges) contribute to Northampton's college town atmosphere.
The Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech is positioned in Northampton.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, a six-day a week morning newspaper, is based in Northampton, covering Hampshire and Franklin counties.
Northampton is the town/city of license for three commercial airways broadcasts: WLZX-FM, WEIB, and WHMP.
Northampton is also home to WXOJ-LP, a low-power improve airways broadcast owned and directed by Valley Free Radio.
In addition, Northampton is home to Northampton Community Television, which has existed in various forms since the mid-1980s but experienced a radical change in 2006 when it became an autonomously run nonprofit improve media center. After a new enhance unveiling in November 2007, NCTV interval to over 200 active members in less than 18 months and had already thriving statewide and nationwide attention in the improve media landscape.
Northampton is served by Interstate 91, which passes to the east of downtown along the Connecticut River.
Route 5, Massachusetts Route 9, and Massachusetts Route 10 all intersect in the city's downtown area.
Massachusetts Route 66 also is partially in Northampton.
The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority operates a several small-town passenger buses that originate in Northampton, with service to small-town suburbs such as Amherst, Williamsburg, Hadley, South Hadley, and Holyoke as well as the close-by universities and colleges: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Hampshire College.
Passenger rail service for Northampton and the encircling area is provided by Amtrak's Vermonter from a platform that is positioned just to the south of the Union Station building. More incessant service is available from Springfield Union Station, which is about a 25-minute drive south of Northampton or a short walk from the Peter Pan Bus terminal in Springfield.
In addition to restoring the Northampton passenger rail stop, a stop has been added in Greenfield and a stop will be added in Holyoke in 2015.
Rail freight transit on the rail line through Northampton, which is known as the Connecticut River Line, is directed by the Pan Am Railways.
Northampton Airport, identified by the airport code 7 - B2, offers a 3,365 x 50-foot runway and is inside a mile-and-a-half walk from downtown.
Northampton serves as the core of a burgeoning rail trail network.
To the west, the Northampton Bikeway provides access to the city's Florence and Leeds neighborhoods, including a route through historic Look Park, while downtown, the bikeway provides an alternative to the congested King and Main Streets. The town/city of Northampton faces daily traffic congestion in the downtown region and connector roads, often resulting in long delays and traffic buildup.
The limitation of one bridge, several routes to the close-by city of Amherst, and a narrow chief street results in unsafe driving behavior and danger to pedestrians. The City of Northampton is attempting to solve this long-time lured by redesigning difficulties intersections and installing traffic cameras. The Connecticut River in Northampton 21% of Northampton is protected open space; this includes Broad Brook/Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area, Connecticut River Greenway (Elwell and Rainbow Beach), Mill River Greenway, Mineral Hills Conservation Area, and Saw Mill Hills/Roberts Hill Conservation Area. The Mill River Greenway is a walking path on Smith College and adjoining territory along the Mill River in the Bay State Village neighborhood of Northampton.
Northampton is a rail trail hub.
Currently, the Norwottuck Rail Trail extends 18 miles (29 km) from Leeds, Florence, and the downtown sections of Northampton to Amherst and Belchertown.
The Manhan Rail Trail extends 8 miles (13 km) from the Norwottuck Rail Trail through Northampton and Easthampton to Southampton.
The Calvin Theater, Iron Horse Music Hall, and Pearl Street Nightclub are among the many venues that play host to Northampton's music scene.
The Northampton Independent Film Festival (NIFF) is held each fall.
Founded as the Northampton Film Festival in 1995 by Howard Polonsky and Dee De - Geiso, it has continued to expanded under a range of directors.
Forbes Library, assembled in 1894, is Northampton's enhance library.
As part of an annual Springfest celebration, students from the Northampton Community Music Center (NCMC) fill the streets with music on the third Saturday of May.
Northampton State Hospital was a large psychiatric hospital, constructed in 1856.
On a small hill overlooking the city, near the site of the former Northampton State Hospital, a simple contemporary monument marks the spot of the hangings of Domenic Daley and James Halligan, two Irishmen wrongfully convicted of murder in 1806. Further information: List of citizens from Northampton, Massachusetts Northampton is the place of birth of the eponymous protagonist in Henry James's 1875 novel Roderick Hudson. Northampton is the setting for a several stories throughout various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media, especially the initial Mirage comics as well as the 2003 animated series.
Were filmed in and around Northampton amid the fall of 1965. When not recording, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton incessanted Northampton's Academy of Music, where they sat in the balcony to watch movies. Other films shot in Northampton include the Academy-Award-winning The Cider House Rules, Malice with Nicole Kidman and Alec Baldwin, In Dreams with Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr., and Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow. Edge of Darkness was filmed in October 2008 in Northampton and the encircling area. Author Tracy Kidder documented the many layers of Northampton society at the end of the 20th century in his nonfiction book Home Town.
Webcomics Questionable Content and Minimalist Stick Figure Theatre take place primarily in Northampton.
Artist Jeffrey Rowlands makes his home in Northampton and is primarily famous for his Overcompensating comic.
The chief affairs of Running with Scissors, a 2002 memoir by Augusten Burroughs detailing his bizarre childhood, take place in Northampton.
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