If
you visit the Massachusetts Department of Education profiles
pages for each public school below, you'll be able to access
detailed information including test scores, student/teacher
ratios and ethnicity data. Distances are measured from the
Town Clerk's office at 100 Middle St.
About
The Town — Hadley is a growing residential community with
a strong agricultural base. This senic community is bordered
on the west by the Connecticut River and on the south by the
Mount Holyoke Range. One of the oldest settlements in the
Commonwealth, Hadley was founded by English colonists in 1659
and grew into an active farming and trading center which today
has the most acreage of farmland of any Pioneer Valley town.
Hadley has two village centers; North Hadley, a picturesque
New England settlement, and Hadley Center, with its notable
historic homes. The Porter Phelps-Huntington House Museum,
built in 1752, hosts folk music concerts and storytelling.
Hadley became the birthplace of broom-making in 1797 and
an important cultivator of broom corn thereafter. The Hadley
Farm Musuem houses a large collection of early New England
farm machinery which illustrates the area's early way of
life.
The town center, with its old stately colonial homes clustered
around the large village green is a contrast to the economically
vital commercial strip along route 9. The Joseph Skinner
State Park, on the Mount Holyoke Range, boasts a spectacular
view from its 930 feet summit and from Summit House, which
was originally built in 1851.
Source: http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/117.pdf,
Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
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