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Porter-phelps-huntington House Museum: HADLEY, a town in western Massachusetts, is in Hampshire county, on the Connecticut River, 18 miles north of Springfield. The surrounding area grows tobacco, potatoes, and asparagus.
Hopkins Academy in Hadley was founded in 1664. It is now a public high school. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum displays historic items, and the Hadley Farm Museum has exhibits of agricultural equipment.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga.
The Taft Museum on Pike Street, previously the home of President Taft's brother Charles Phelps Taft, is a fine example of Federal American architecture, in which paintings and art objects are displayed. The Cincinnati Art Museum in the Eden Park district houses a wide range of collections of famous works of art. Since 1869 it has operated an art academy. Nearby, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History offers a planetarium, a wilderness trail, and a reproduction of a cavern. |
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