SOUTH

See also:

• HADLEY
• HADLEY, ARTHUR TWINING (1856– )
• HADLEY, JAMES (1821–1872)

HADLEY  , a township of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on the Connecticut river, about 12 M . N. of Springfield . Pop . (1900), 4526, of whom 1119 were foreign-born; (1910 census), 4894 . Area, 18.5 sq. m . There are no steam railways, but an electric line connects South Hadley and South Hadley Falls with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Maine railways at Holyoke . The village of South Hadley, or the Center, lies at the south base of Mount Holyoke, about 4 M. from Holyoke and about 3 M. from South Hadley Falls; it is the seat of Mount Holyoke College . South Hadley Falls are connected with Holyoke by a bridge across the Connecticut river . The falls of the river afford water-power for paper mills, cotton and woollen mills, and saw mills . South Hadley was originally a part of the township of Hadley, but in 1753 the district of South Hadley was established, and in 1775 incorporated as a separate township .