About Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield is a town of 5,090 people in Franklin County, at the point where the Deerfield River joins the Connecticut. The Pocumtuck nation lived here when English colonists came. After the General Court gave 8,000 acres to the Praying Indians at Natick, it repaid Dedham with 8,000 acres of its own choosing, and Dedham picked Pocomtuck. House lots were drawn on May 23, 1670, and on May 7, 1673, the court made Deerfield separate from Dedham.

As New England's northwesternmost outpost, the village took the brunt of frontier war. Settlers left after the Battle of Bloody Brook in 1675 and came back in 1682. Before dawn on February 29, 1704, French and Native forces under Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville burned much of the village, killed 56 colonists and marched 112 captives nearly 300 miles toward Montreal. Deerfield helped raise ransom money, and most captives eventually came home, among them the minister John Williams, whose 1707 account of his captivity became well known. His daughter Eunice, taken at 8, married a Mohawk man and stayed.

“The beautiful Deerfield Street, without a rival in all New England, with its grand elms and venerable dwellings, became an historic wonderland.”
The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908
  • The door that survivedEnsign John Sheldon's house outlasted the 1704 raid, its front door hacked by tomahawks. Called the Old Indian House, it stood until 1849; its door was saved. The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association bought it back from collector Dr. Daniel Denison Slade and displayed it in glass at the Pocumtuck House. Frank Nims led neighbors carrying it out when the hotel burned May 18, 1877. After a corner store and a corn house, it reached Memorial Hall in September 1879.
  • Lucy Terry's "Bars Fight"Lucy Terry was stolen from Africa as a baby and enslaved; at about five she was brought to the Deerfield home of Ebenezer Wells. She was the author of "Bars Fight," a 1746 ballad telling of an August raid on the Deerfield meadow. It passed by memory until printed in 1854 and is counted as the earliest known African American literary work. Abijah Prince, a free Black man, bought her freedom, and they married in 1756.
  • Saving its own pastUnder historian George Sheldon, residents formed the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in 1870 and marked Bloody Brook and the 1704 attack with monuments. Its Memorial Hall Museum, opened in 1880, built the first permanent period room in any American museum. Returning in 1890, C. Alice Baker restored her family's Frary House with Boston's Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge. Henry and Helen Flynt, arriving in 1936, founded Historic Deerfield, whose eleven house museums include the 1734 Ashley House and 1747 Wells-Thorn House.
  • An academy from 1797Deerfield Academy received its charter in 1797, under Governor Samuel Adams, and formally opened on New Year's Day in 1799, in a building Asher Benjamin had designed the year before. During the War of 1812 the school added a Professor of the Art of War. It ranks among the nation's oldest secondary schools, and its first building became Memorial Hall Museum.
  • From common fields to onionsThe Rev. John Williams's 60-pound salary as minister from 1686 came in wheat, peas, Indian corn and pork. After harvest the field became common pasture. South Deerfield later grew tobacco and onions; James Campbell's Connecticut Valley Onion Company, organized there in 1908, handled four to five hundred carloads yearly by 1926.

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Names on the Deerfield map

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Places and landmarks18

  • Downtown
  • East Deerfield
  • Arthurs Seat
  • Deerfield Meadows
  • Great Hill
  • North Meadows
  • Chard Pond
  • Clapp Pond
  • Roaring Brook Reservoir
  • Whitmore Pond
  • Melnik
  • Peffer Farm
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  • Tabak Memorial Forest
  • Mill River
  • North Sunderland
  • South Deerfield
  • Wapping
  • West Deerfield

Streets and roads97

  • South Deerfield Bypass
  • Greenfield Road
  • Conway Road
  • Sunderland Road
  • Sugarloaf Street
  • North Main Street
  • Mill Village Road
  • Jones Road
  • River Road
  • Lower Road
  • Upper Road
  • Pine Nook Road
  • Stillwater Road
  • Hawks Road
  • McClelland Farm Road
  • Rices Ferry Road
  • Sandgully Road
  • Hillside Road
  • Whately Road
  • Steam Mill Road
  • North Hillside Road
  • Lee Road
  • South Mill River Road
  • Plain Road
  • Old Albany Road
  • Sugarloaf Mountain Road
  • Keets Road
  • Sandgully Road North
  • Old World Road
  • Pogues Hole Road
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  • Old Main Street
  • Whately Glen Road
  • Old Ferry Road
  • Boynton Road
  • Hoosac Road
  • Mathews Road
  • Wapping Road
  • Settright Road
  • Railroad Yard Road
  • Eastern Avenue
  • Stage Road
  • Foxtown Road
  • Jingle Hill Road
  • Graves Street
  • Sawmill Plain Road
  • Pleasant Street
  • Capt Lathrop Drive
  • Jackson Road
  • Whitmore Ferry Road
  • Crestview Drive
  • Conway Street
  • County Road
  • Juniper Drive
  • Mountain Road
  • Thayer Street
  • Elm Circle
  • Kelleher Drive
  • Hobbie Road
  • West Street
  • Albany Road
  • Ward Avenue
  • Main Street
  • South Main Street
  • Broughams Pond Road
  • East Deerfield Road
  • Sandgully Road South
  • Round Pond Road
  • Old Pine Nook Road
  • Boynton Road West
  • King Philip Avenue
  • Christian Drive
  • Childs Cross Road
  • Duncan Drive
  • Martins Falls Road
  • Wells Cross Road
  • Pleasant Avenue
  • Muddy Flat Road
  • Heritage Way
  • Valley View Lane
  • Ridge Road
  • Beaver Drive
  • Albany Road West
  • North Street
  • Keith Cross Road
  • Memorial Street
  • Baker Lane
  • Evans Lane
  • Allen Drive
  • Log Meadow Road
  • River Road North
  • Stockbridge Road
  • Oak Knoll Drive
  • Greenough Crossing Road
  • Easterly Access Road
  • Braeburn Road
  • Hillcrest Avenue
  • Clark Cross Road

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