Welcome to Hadley, Massachusetts - Artistic Welcome Signs on Waymarking.com

The sign depicts a lovely farm scene with a couple of barns, a farmer and his horse plowing a field, other farm buildings and a church in the distance, a river, and lovely mountains in the background. The scene takes you back to Hadley's settlement by splinter groups from puritan colonies in Connecticut.

The following history is from Wikipedia:

"Hadley was first settled in 1659 and was officially incorporated in 1661. Its settlers were primarily a discontented group of families from the puritan colonies of Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, who petitioned to start a new colony up north after some controversy over doctrine in the local church. At the time, Hadley encompassed a wide radius of land on both sides of the Connecticut River, but mostly on the eastern shore. In the following century, these were broken off into precincts and eventually the separate towns of Hatfield, Amherst, South Hadley, Granby and Belchertown. The early histories of these towns are, as a result, filed under the history of Hadley."

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