Surely the acreage with this house was much larger than it's now....KELLOGG House, 1825..... The structure was erected by Warham Sackett for his daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Whipple. The house was passed on to her daughter, Mrs Julia Kellogg, who gave it to her daughter, Eliza Kellogg.

Westfield was part of Springfield until 1669 and called "Woronoake"....it was established as a city 1920.

Westfield in in Hampden Co.

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Cyndy > " IX miles to Springfield Court House"..............
believed to be one of the milestones erected by Elijah Bates
"from Springfield Court House to Chester factories", this
marker stood at 80 Main St. for about 150 years . Lawyer
Bates , principle owner of the eighth Massachusetts turnpike, built in 1800-1805 to connect Westfield with Pittsfield, opened
Bates Road for access to the turnpike terminus at the Russell line."
Rerected at Park Square 1963

Cyndy > 1669 - 1969 .......during 1969 a birthday cake, 10 feet high and 19 feet in diameter with 300 lamps, illuminated this park.
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Cyndy > Surely the acreage with this house was much larger than it's now....KELLOGG House, 1825.....
The structure was erected by Warham Sackett for his daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Whipple. The house was passed on
to her daughter, Mrs Julia Kellogg, who gave it to her daughter,
Eliza Kellogg.

Cyndy > bult about 1760.......sorry no name of builder or owner

Cyndy > lovely old brick house......built c.1760

Cyndy > The entrance to the Westfield Cemetery... "The old burying Ground"

Cyndy > Many many stones missing........

Cyndy > Original burying ground of the first settlers of Westfield..in use from about 1670-1800's...over 100 headstones remain...about 500 unmarked graves.....earliest dated stone 1683.
the mortal remains of the early settlers--farmers, craftsmen, clergymen, soldiers, the women, men, and children of this frontier town are here interred.
Included in their number are civic leaders and veterans of the colonial wars and the Revolutionary War, from private to general.
One stone makes the grave of the first ordained minister.
The Rev. Edward Taylor, who in 1671 began a long pastorate of 58 years, his writings have established him as the greatest
poet of Colonial America.
the Western Hampden Historical Society
May 30,1964

Surely the acreage with this house was much larger than it's now....KELLOGG House, 1825.....
The structure was erected by Warham Sackett for his daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Whipple. The house was passed on
to her daughter, Mrs Julia Kellogg, who gave it to her daughter,
Eliza Kellogg.