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| | Northfield Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | Northfield is bounded on the east by Warwick, on the south by Erving, on the west by Gill and Bernardston, and on the north by Vernon in Vermont and Winchester in New Hampshire. |
 | | The marked feature of Northfield is "The Street," which runs through the town on the margin of the uplands about one mile from the river; the space between being occupied by beautiful, smooth, fertile meadows. |
 | | The plantation had borne the name of "Squakead" from the Indian words Squakeag, or, as in the earlier documents, Suckquakege, and Wissquawquegue,—each intended to signify "a spearing place for salmon." The river was called by the Indians Quinnehtuck ("the river with long waves"), and the land adjoining the stream. |
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