Hadley’s West Street Common is the longest public green in Massachusetts–and there is quite a story about it. We are pleased to share a few excerpts from a 2004 Landscape Architecture thesis by Patricia Laurice Ellsworth on the history of the West Street Common. To learn more, you can check out her thesis from the UMass Library.
The Hadley Common in 2005. View to the north (Bay Road at bottom of picture; Connecticut River at the top).
