Northampton’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Northampton. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Northampton was created from the villages of Siegfried, Newport, and Stemton, which unified to form Northampton in 1902.
Due to the limestone formations in the region, Northampton became a global center for the manufacturing of cement. Atlas Portland Cement Company, the largest such company in the world for much of the 20th century, operated in Northampton from 1895 to 1982. It produced some eight million barrels of cement for construction of the Panama Canal, which included most of the cement used on the canal's construction.
In 1909, Atlas petitioned county courts to change the alliance into a borough, reportedly because the change would make it easier for the company to send and receive mail.
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Start Northampton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Northampton’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewNorthampton Brewery, Newport Aven…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Northampton, decade by decade
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unknown2 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Northampton Brewery, Newport Avenue north of Laubach Avenue and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.