The Early Settlers of Colrain, Mass.

 

A scanned copy of “The Early Settlers of Colrain, Mass.” by Charles McClellan is on the Library of Congress website. This is a wonderful source of information about early Colrain and its people, and very readable. 

Read it here:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.earlysettlersofc00mccle/?sp=9&st=image  

The book may also be read at Colrain’s Griswold Memorial Library.

Colrain's First Public House

 

Colrain’s first publick house, built in 1738-39, was known as Pennell’s Tavern, later Woods’ Tavern and an inn. It was here that Colrain’s Committee of Correspondence met in 1774 “to discuss the situation and other matters including probably, certain liquids that John Woods naturally kept” and framed the Colrain Resolutions against the tea tax and British rule, according to “Early Settlers of Colrain” by Charles H. McClellan (1885). A portion of the tavern’s wainscoting is preserved in the Historical Museum in Deerfield. The building stood just northwest of the home David Nims at the top of Chandler Hill. This photo was taken long after the tavern ceased to function and shortly before it was torn down in the 1890s.

A scanned copy of the Lyon family genealogy on the Google books website is the source of this photo.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wic3AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA183&dq=wainscoting%20from%20David%20Lyons%20tavern&pg=PA182#v=onepage&q&f=false

Programs on YouTube

 Some of the Colrain Historical Society programs were recorded and posted to our YouTube channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/@colrainhistoricalsociety2338

“Those Colrain Girls” presented October 12, 2023.

Colrain’s Own “Dr. Ollie” presented April 13, 2023.

A Hurrah’s Nest and Other Yankee Talk presented May 12, 2022

Pioneer Valley Dude Ranch presented July 14, 2022.