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Colrian Orchards

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  Can you help identify the Colrain Orchards in 1961?   There are about 33 separate orchard shown on the 1961 USGS map, just like the 3 seen above here. ********* PROJECT ********* To identify all of the orchards large and small by an owner's name or some other ID such as "a large pick your own orchard owned by a guy who had an old red Dodge" -----  Anything to get this list going. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why do this ?   The Colrain Historical Society is thinking of making a "Colrain Apples Cookbook"  and a map pinpointing the orchards should be part of the book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are 4 sections of the USGS map with each orchard numbered.  Northwest Colrain.... Wilson Hill etc Northeast Colrain.... near Green River   Southwest Colrain.... Catamount etc Southwestwest Colrain.... Van Nuys Road etc  
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Colrain Veterans Revolutionary War 151 men served

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    Colrain Marchers  of April 1775 Colrain Marchers Gravesites James White of Colrain  marched to Lexington and Concord in April 1775, at the start of the Revolutionary war. He survived the war and died in 1843.    Today his remains are in the Christian Hill Cemetery overlooking his town (middle stone below).White and 30 other  men who marched that April were Colrain's first Revolutionary war soldiers..(see Muster Roll  and blog post on the Gravesites here).   ... (James White  grave pics from Don Purington.)  A plaque at the Griswold Memorial Library lists 151 Revolutionary War veterans for the eight years 1775-1783.  Are any of these your ancestors? Below are the names, transcribed (credit to Nina Reyes)  "YES" means a man who marched to Lexington & Concord in April. Num Lnane Fname Lex-Concord Cemetery Descendants 1 Anderson William YES 2 Baker Thomas YES 3 Ball Thomas 4 Bell Thomas 5 Bell Walter 6 Boi...
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Colrain in the Revolution - 9 Graves of 1775 Militiamen

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Nine men who marched from Colrain to Boston on April 20, 1775, 250 years ago, have gravestones in Colrain.  Here we have pictures of the stones, with the epitaphs. They rushed to support fellow citizens as soon as they heard about the Lexingon-Concord battles, one day before.  Local lore has it that the night before their wives made doughnuts to fortify the militiamen on their march. See Also the Muster Roll reporting their service at this page.  Roll #          Name           Chandler Hill Cemetery 4                   Hugh McClellan 30                  Robert Miller 11                  John Patterson 32                  William Stewart 31           ...
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