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57-530: One of the largest recognized repositories of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources of women's history, the collection consists of over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of material documenting the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present. The Sophia Smith Collection shares facilities with the Smith College Archives on

114-466: A burial; they were destroyed in the local slaughterhouse. This trial "later came to be seen as epitomizing the anti-Irish sentiment that was widespread in New England in the early 19th century." Daley and Halligan were exonerated of all crimes by governor Michael Dukakis in 1984. Today a simple stone landmark stands marking the site of Daley and Halligan's executions. In 1835 Northampton was linked to

171-507: A city on September 5, 1883, when voters accepted the city charter, "The act to establish the city of Northampton. 1883-Chapter 250," as passed and approved. Immigrant groups that settled Northampton in large numbers included Irish , Polish , and French-Canadians . In 1890 a small number of German-Jewish families arrived in Northampton, most of them coming from New York or Boston. By 1905 there were almost 5000 foreign-born residents among

228-478: A female householder with no husband present, and 50.9% were non-families. Of all households 37.2% were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12 and the average family size was 2.81. In the city, the population was spread out, with 20.7% age 19 and under, 9.8% from 20 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 30.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

285-722: A high number of same-sex households and is a popular destination for the LGBT community. Northampton is part of the Pioneer Valley and is one of the northernmost cities in the Knowledge Corridor —a cross-state cultural and economic partnership with other Connecticut River Valley cities and towns. Northampton is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Area , one of western Massachusetts 's two separate metropolitan areas. It sits approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of

342-618: A house on Park Street until 1857). 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 founded in Northampton in 1867. It was the United States' first permanent oral school for the deaf. Alexander Graham Bell and Grace Coolidge have served as heads of school. Smith College for women

399-403: A large politically liberal community along with numerous alternative health and intellectual organizations. Based on U.S. Census demographics, election returns, and other criteria, the website Epodunk rates Northampton as the most politically liberal medium-size city (population 25,000–99,000) in the United States. The city has a high proportion of residents who identify as gay and lesbian and

456-422: A little deviously, relying on accomplished fact to argue for me....In any case, I think you will understand how I came to go ahead... if the comprehension if those whose plan it is supposed to be. I am convinced that it is so sound and valuable an enterprise that it must be developed as fast as possible...." Collection development grew rapidly during those early years although as of 1946 the collection still lacked

513-418: A name. According to Grierson, "the name of Smith College's founder was not used for other purposes,... and it seemed fitting to adopt the name of the woman who had founded the college to provide women with an education equivalent (not equal) to that offered men, for the collection which was to provide a better knowledge of the accomplishment of women through the ages.... " . The Women's Collection became known as

570-616: A permanent settlement. The situation in the region further deteriorated when the Mohawk people escalated hostilities against the Pocumtuc confederacy and other Algonquian tribes after 1655, forcing many of the plague-devastated Algonquian groups into defensive mergers. This coincided with a souring of relations between the Wampanoag and the Massachusetts Bay colonists, eventually leading to

627-594: A radical change in 2006 when it became an independently run nonprofit community media center. After a new public unveiling in November 2007, NCTV grew to over 200 active members in less than 18 months and had already attracted statewide and national attention in the community media landscape. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 NCTV won awards for best web sites (for two different sites) in the United States for community media organizations with budgets under $ 300,000. Margaret Sanger Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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684-412: Is 104 miles (167 km) by highway east of Northampton. New York City is 161 miles (259 km) southwest of Northampton. The Connecticut River's Oxbow is within Northampton's city limits, at the northern base of Mount Nonotuck . Northampton has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ), typical of western Massachusetts. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm and humid. Precipitation

741-524: Is archived as part of the Sophia Smith Collection. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project (1990–2006), is archived as part of the Sophia Smith Collection. The SSC Periodicals Collection includes over 1,000 titles of current and historical women's magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and other serials, and 50 current subscriptions. Its holdings represent periodicals such as Godey's Lady's Book (1830–1889), Woman's Journal (1870–1916), Lucifer

798-538: Is evenly distributed year-around, with an annual average of 46.14 inches (1,172 millimetres). As of the census of 2010, there were 28,549 people, 12,000 households, and 5,895 families residing in the city. Northampton has the most lesbian couples per capita of any city in the US. The population density was 833.7 inhabitants per square mile (321.9/km ). There were 12,728 housing units (12,000 occupied) at an average density of 360.0 per square mile (139.0/km ). The racial makeup of

855-488: Is the sort if collection which will gather impetus as it grows. I believe that we have good opportunity to develop a collection which... may be distinguished.... " As the collection grew, so did the proportion of manuscript to published materials and its recognition by a national community of scholars. Margaret Grierson explained her role in shaping the Collection's development in these early years: "President Davis did toss

912-470: The Massachusetts Bay Colony during the previous two decades. It was in this context that the land making up the bulk of modern Northampton was sold to settlers from Springfield in 1653. On May 18, 1653, a petition for township was approved by the general court of Springfield. While some settlers visited the land in the fall of 1653, they waited till early spring 1654 to arrive and establish

969-822: The National Congress of Neighborhood Women ; and the National Board of the YWCA . Subject collections include materials on African American Women , Artists , the Contemporary Women's Movement , Diaries , Autobiographies , family papers , Journalism , Labor , Women in Medicine , Reproductive Rights and Women's Health, Social Work , and the Suffrage Movement . Oral Histories, from both individual and within collections of personal papers, cover topics such as women in

1026-509: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 35.8 square miles (92.6 km ), of which 34.2 square miles (88.7 km ) are land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km ), or 4.22%, are water. A total of 21% of the city is permanently protected open space. Within Northampton's city limits are the villages of Florence and Leeds. Northampton is bordered to the north by the towns of Hatfield and Williamsburg , to

1083-455: The poverty line , including 15.1% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over. Northampton's public 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 several private schools in Northampton and a number of charter schools in surrounding towns. According to

1140-554: The 1700s, although no alleged witches were executed. Members of the Northampton community were present at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia . On August 29, 1786, Daniel Shays and a group of Revolutionary War veterans (who called themselves Shaysites) stopped the civil court from sitting in Northampton, in an uprising known as Shays' Rebellion . In 1805 a crowd of 15,000 gathered in Northampton to watch

1197-464: The 1990s, and they share a strong feminist perspective. Northampton, Massachusetts The city of Northampton / n ɔːr θ ˈ h æ m p t ə n / is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts , United States. As of the 2020 census , the population of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds ) was 29,571. Northampton is known as an academic, artistic, musical, and countercultural hub. It features

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1254-515: The 20,000 people of the city. During the mid-20th century, Northampton experienced several decades of economic decline, bottoming in the 1970s, related to the emergence of the Rust Belt phenomenon. Though 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

1311-614: The Chicago settlement, Hull House ; Mary van Kleeck , social researcher and reformer; the Garrison, Hale, and Ames families; political activist Dorothy Kenyon ; the papers of author and activist Gloria Steinem ; and lesbian feminist and architect Phyllis Birkby . Records of Organizations include the minutes, correspondence, reports, publications and related materials documenting the activities of more than sixty organizations focused on women's issues, like Planned Parenthood Federation of America ;

1368-472: The Clarke School for the Deaf) specializes in oral education (speech and lip-reading , as opposed to signing ) and holds an annual summer camp, the theme varying from summer to summer. Clarke is the oldest oral school for the deaf in the country, established in 1867 on Round Hill Road overlooking the Connecticut River Valley. The Daily Hampshire Gazette , a six-day a week morning newspaper and

1425-607: The Eighth Massachusetts Governor's Council District by Democrat Tara Jacobs. Northampton is home to Smith College , founded in 1871, A women's college (one of the Seven Sisters ), it is also one of the Five Colleges Consortium . Smith students (along with those of the associated Five Colleges ) contribute to Northampton's college town atmosphere. Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech (formerly

1482-513: The Lightbearer (1897–1901), Eugenesia (Mexico, 1943–45), Church Woman (1943–49), and Black Sash (South Africa, 1956–72), as well as early women's liberation periodicals Shrew , Rat , and Velvet Fist . The Girl Zines Collection consists of 9 linear feet (18 boxes) of small, self-published magazines (known as "zines") created primarily by young women and girls. The collection is primarily made up of individual issues, mostly dating from

1539-468: The Northampton Association of Education and Industry, the community believed that the rights of all people should be "equal without distinction of sex, color or condition, sect or religion". It supported itself by producing mulberry trees and silk . Sojourner Truth , a former slave who became a national advocate for equality and justice, lived in this community until its dissolution (and later in

1596-545: The Sophia Smith Collection shortly thereafter. The Sophia Smith Collection includes over 650 collections (over 10,000 linear feet) of personal and professional papers of individuals and families, organization records, subject collections, oral histories, periodicals, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The Personal and Family Papers contain letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs. The most widely used collections include those of birth control crusader Margaret Sanger ; Ellen Gates Starr , co-founder with Jane Addams of

1653-481: The United States Calvin Coolidge (1910–1911) and James "Big Jim" Cahillane, who served from 1954 to 1960. Well-known Judge Sean M. Dunphy was the youngest elected mayor in its history, at age 28. The city also has a nine-member city council, composed of seven ward representatives and two at-large members. Councilors are elected to two-year terms and the council meets twice monthly for 10 months out of

1710-526: The birth control movement, social work, suffrage movement, Italian immigrants, African American women, and American women in the Vietnam War. These projects, sponsored by Smith or other institutions, include interviews on audiotapes, CD-ROM, videotapes, DVDS, and/or typed transcripts, some of which are accompanied by small amounts of biographical materials, photographs, or project records. The Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project , founded by Arden Eversmeyer in 1999,

1767-472: The campus of Smith College. In recent years, downtown Northampton has seen a decline, with nearly one out of five storefronts being vacant as of September 2022. Northampton sits on the west side of the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts . It is located at 42°20′N 72°39′W  /  42.333°N 72.650°W  / 42.333; -72.650 . According to

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1824-434: The city of Holyoke rather than Northampton's own municipal departments, and after a number of negotiations between the two cities, Smith's Ferry was ceded to Holyoke in 1909 for a sum of $ 62,000. Congregational preacher, theologian and philosopher Jonathan Edwards was a leading figure in a 1734 Christian revival in Northampton. In the winter of 1734 and the following spring it reached such intensity that it threatened

1881-575: The city of Springfield . Northampton is home to Smith College , the Hotel Northampton, Northampton High School , Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School , and the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech . Northampton was known as "Norwottuck", or "Nonotuck", meaning "the midst of the river", named by its original Pocumtuc inhabitants. According to various accounts, Northampton was given its present name by John A. King (1629–1703), one of

1938-425: The city was 87.7% White , 2.7% African American , 0.3% Native American , 4.1% Asian , 0.1% Pacific Islander , 2.4% from other races , and 2.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.8% of the population. There were 12,000 households, out of which 21.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.6% were characterized as "husband-wife" married couples living together, 11.3% had

1995-545: The college's campus in Northampton, Massachusetts . Subject strengths include birth control and reproductive rights , women's rights , suffrage , the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England. Many of these collections are rich sources of visual, as well as manuscript and printed material. Open to

2052-470: The country in August 2005 at the eighth Prometheus Radio Project barnraising, in conjunction with the tenth annual Grassroots Radio Coalition conference. Valley Free Radio broadcasts music, news, public affairs, and locally produced radio content to listeners at 103.3 FM. In addition, Northampton is home to Northampton Community Television, which has existed in numerous forms since the mid-1980s but experienced

2109-613: The current market) to endow Smith College. In 1941, Smith College President Herbert Davis proposed the Friends of the Smith College Library that they take on as a special project a collection devoted to works of women writers. Smith College Archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was appointed Executive Secretary of the Friends of the Smith College Library and Director of the Women's Collection in 1942. According to Grierson, President Davis

2166-534: The decline of Springfield's manufacturing sector, Holyoke's paper industry, and massive plant closures in the New York Capital District . Northampton has a thriving cultural center and is a popular tourist destination. The city has many eclectic restaurants and a lively arts and music scene. Three Northampton farmers markets, held weekly, sell fresh produce from local farms. Since 1982, Northampton has been host to an annual LGBT Parade and Pride event held

2223-435: The executions of two Irishmen convicted of murder: Dominic Daley , 34, and James Halligan , 27. The crowd, composed largely of New England White Anglo-Saxon Protestants , lit bonfires and expressed virulently anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiments. The trial evidence against Daley and Halligan was sparse, circumstantial, contrived, and perjurious. The men were hanged on June 5, 1806, on Pancake Plain. Their bodies were denied

2280-562: The expanded Algonquian alliance, which took part in King Philip's War . Northampton was part of the Equivalent Lands compromise. Its territory was enlarged beyond the original settlement, but later portions would be carved up into separate cities, towns, and municipalities. Southampton , for example, was incorporated in 1775 and included parts of the territories of modern Montgomery (incorporated in 1780) and Easthampton . Westhampton

2337-563: 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. The festival is a national juried showcase for contemporary craft and fine art. Since 2004, Northampton has been the site of Django in June, a week-long gypsy jazz music camp held annually on

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2394-575: The first white settlers in Northampton, or possibly in King's honor, since it is supposed that he came to Massachusetts from Northampton, England , his birthplace. The Pocumtuc confederacy occupied the Connecticut River Valley from what is now southern Vermont and New Hampshire into northern Connecticut . The Pocumtuc tribes were Algonquian and traditionally allied with the Mahican confederacy to

2451-426: The idea if a collection if the writings if literary women, and I have been busy for years redefining the thing to make sense if it. In the process, I have more or less quietly won the approval and support and clarification if many intelligent alumnae and non-Smith women....I am the only one on campus who knows the women's field at all, and I have met only with support from he president although I have gone slowly, perhaps

2508-611: The ocean by the New Haven and Northampton Canal , but the canal enterprise foundered and after about a decade was replaced by a railroad running along the same route. A flood on the Mill River on May 16, 1874, obliterated almost the entire Northampton neighborhood of Leeds , killing 139 people in Leeds and areas of neighboring towns. From 1842 until 1846 Northampton was home to a transcendentalist utopian community of abolitionists . Called

2565-477: The oldest surviving newspaper in Massachusetts, is based in Northampton, covering Hampshire and Franklin counties. Northampton is the city of license for three commercial radio stations: WLZX-FM , WEIB , and WHMP . Northampton is also home to WXOJ-LP, a low-power community radio station owned and operated by Valley Free Radio . The station was built by more than 400 volunteers from Northampton and around

2622-412: The pages if our country's history.... The primary concern if gathering material on American women from colonial days onward should not, however, lead to the rejection [ij] material on women if other nations... .Among the Friends if the Smith College Library, many are especially eager. .. that the collection should be... differently formulated and would, I am sure, be if lively assistance in the plan.... This

2679-451: The project be redefined as a "special historical collection of women's materials, recording women's interests and activities in the course of human history and across the face of the earth". The donations, many from interested Smith alumnae, were indicative of a growing consensus of what the new collection should be: "... Such a collection would be primarily if historical value, almost surely offering...fresh material from which to rewrite

2736-482: The public free of charge, the collection does not circulate but is available to everyone, can be visited online, or requested as photocopies. The collection was established by Margaret Storrs Grierson in 1942 to serve as the library's distinctive contribution to the college's mission of educating women. The collection was later named after the founder of Smith College, Sophia Smith , who upon her death in 1870 willed her fortune of $ 387,468 (approximately $ 7,000,000.00 in

2793-544: The town's businesses. In the spring of 1735 the movement began to subside and a reaction set in. 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. For this achievement, Edwards is considered one of the founders of evangelical Christianity . Northampton hosted its own witch trials in

2850-539: The website ePodunk's Gay Index, which is based on figures from the 2000 US Census, Northampton has a score of 535, vs. a national average score of 100 (i.e., Northampton's population includes 5.35 times the national average of same-sex unmarried households). According to the Human Rights Campaign, Northampton scored a 100 out of 100 on its Municipality Equality Index. Gina-Louise Sciarra is the mayor of Northampton. Previous mayors have included future President of

2907-648: 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 connects Northampton with Hadley across the Connecticut River. The college town of Amherst is located 7 miles (11 km) east of Northampton, next to Hadley. Springfield, the Connecticut River Valley 's most populous Massachusetts city, is located 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Northampton. Boston

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2964-628: The west. By 1606 an ongoing struggle between the Mahican and Iroquois confederacies led to direct attacks on the Pocumtuc by the Iroquoian Mohawk nation . The Mahican confederacy had been defeated by 1628, limiting Pocumtuc access to trade routes to the west. The area suffered a major smallpox epidemic in the 1630s following the arrival of Dutch traders in the Hudson Valley and New England settlers in

3021-712: The year. The three other elected city-wide bodies are the School Committee, the Trustees of Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School and the Trustees of Forbes Library. Northampton is represented in the 1st Hampshire District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives by Democrat Lindsay Sabadosa, in the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District of the Massachusetts Senate by Democrat Jo Comerford, and on

3078-408: Was "not clear in his own mind" about what he wanted. Women's rights activist, historian, and archivist Mary Ritter Beard , "rather hoped that [Smith] would be interested in carrying on the work of the recently abandoned Women's Archives [World Center for Women's Archives (WCWA)]," which she had founded in 1935. Within the first year the scope of donations, coupled with Beard's influence, mandated that

3135-413: Was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 75.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 71.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 56,999, and the median income for a family was $ 80,179. Males had a median income of $ 40,470 versus $ 32,003 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 33,440. About 7.8% of families and 13.5% of the population were below

3192-547: Was founded in Northampton in 1871. Today Smith is the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges . Well-known Smith alumnae include Sylvia Plath , Barbara Bush , Nancy Reagan , Tammy Baldwin , Gloria Steinem , Madeleine L'Engle , and Julia Child . The first game of women's basketball was played at Smith College in 1892. A theft of $ 1.6 million ($ 46.5 million in 2023) from the Northampton National Bank took place on January 27, 1876. Northampton officially became

3249-449: Was incorporated in 1778 and Easthampton in 1809. A hamlet of Northampton, called Smith's Ferry , became separated from the rest of the city with the drawing of boundaries for Easthampton. Because the village was separated by Mount Tom , the shortest path to from the downtown to this area was a road near the Connecticut River oxbow , which was frequently subject to flooding. This led to many services such as fire and police being provided by

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