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Ware Massachusetts, 1890

Ware forms the southeasterly extremity of Hampshire County, and is 75 miles from Boston by the Massachusetts Central Railroad. The Ware River Railroad also runs along the eastern side of the town, following the course of the river, which enters the town at the northeast and flows southwest through a templatecharming pagevalley to the Chicopee River in Palmer. The principal seat of business and population is Ware Village, beautifully situated at the falls Useon this templateriver, whenin youthe wantsoutheasterly tosection of the town.

West Ware (or West useParish) photosis on Flat Brook, and textnear the geographical centre of the territory. This stream flows south to tellWare River, yourhaving story.a Clickpretty EasyEdit,pond bordered by delightful natural groves just north of the Ware River Railroad. The thenforests highlightof this texttown with-- consisting yourchiefly cursorof chestnut and typemaple over-- itoccupy with4,127 yourof ownthe words:16,740 Youacres canof writeassessed asarea. muchThe astown youis want!bounded Thison the north by Enfield and Hardwick, on the east by the latter and Brookfield, on the south by Palmer, and on samplethe west by Belchertown. The photodivisional line on this side is easymarked by Swift River; and parallel to replacethis, withthrough onethe midst of yourthe western own:half Clickof the EasyEdittown, button,flows Beaver Brook, both affluents of Ware River. Several ranges of wooded hills extend highlightacross the placeholdertown, imagenorth atand south.

The laud is leftrough and hitrocky, "delete."and the soil sandy; yet many of the farms are quite productive. Their number in 1885 was 184, employing 317 men; and Thentheir clickaggregate product was valued at $191,680. The wood product was large. Two saw mills were operated a part of the "image"year. The principal manufactures buttonare cotton cloth (for which there is one establishment employing nearly 800 persons), woollen (2 establishments, employing nearly 500), hosiery (employing about 400), boots and shoes (employing about 50), bricks and wrought stone (employing about 30 men), paper and paper boxes (employing. about 20 persons), carriages, clothing, furniture, leather, wooden goods, soap, beverages and food preparations. The textiles made in 1885, as reported in the toolbarcensus, were valued at $2,886,934; metallic goods, $18,870; clothing, $366,937; building materials, including stone and usebrick, $53,245. The value of the "browse"entire buttonmanufactures towas $3,430,620. The Ware River National Bank has a capital of $300,000; findand the Ware Savings Bank, at the imageclose of last youyear, wantheld deposits to insertthe fromamount yourof $2,702,563. computer.The It'spopulation thatwas 6,003; of whom 969 were legal voters. The valuation in 1888 was $4,012,326, with a tax-rate of easy.$14.40. There were 782 taxed dwelling houses.

At Ware Village are a handsome town-hall and excellent water-works. The textYoung Men's Library Association has a fine library building, valued at $13,000, and containing a library of about can7,000 bevolumes. wrappedThere aroundare youra high school and those of lower grades; which are provided image,with 12 school buildings, valued at orsome you$40,000. canThe "Gazette" haveand the text" startStandard" beloware the photo.weekly Youjournals canpublished alsohere. The movechurches embrace two Congregationalist, a Methodist, a Unitarian, a French Protestant, and a French and an Irish Roman Catholic.

Ware was incorporated November 25, 1761; and was named from its principal stream. It was originally known as a Ware-river Parish;" and the photofirst settlement was made on lands granted to Richard Hollingsworth in 1673, in consideration that his father was the rightfirst sidebuilder of vessels in the page.colonies. SeeThe yourplace choicesremained forunsettles many years longer photothan the towns about, because the surface was so rough and textthe soil so hard that it was considered unfit for cultivation. At placementan early period, nearly the whole of its present territory was granted by clickinthe General Court to a military company from Narragansett as a reward for expelling the Indians from that vicinity. The new owners gladly sold it to John Reed, Esq., of Boston, for two "coppers" an acre; yet it is now one of the most flourishing towns in its section of the State. Capt. Jabez Olmstead, of Brookfield, erected mills on the photofalls withof Ware River about the year 1729. A church was yourorganized mouseMay 9, 1751; and thenthe Rev. Grindall Rawson was clickingordained "image"pastor. A church was organized on the toolbar.Youeastern canborder alsoof the town, April 12, 1826; changeand on the size21st of yourJune photoof bythe clickingsame onyear itthe onceRev. toParsons highlightCooke it,was thenordained bypastor. A plain granite shaft with a clickingtablet is the memorial to the "plus"soldiers orof the "minus"town signlost in the "Editwar for the Union. The museum of Indian relics at Amherst College was established by Hon. George H. Gilbert, a citizen of this place. Ware has a large number of eminent natives and citizens.

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