Hatfield

Few towns in Massachusetts’s Connecticut River Valley have a past as closely linked to fertile river-bottom farming as Hatfield. Set beside the Connecticut River, the town retains broad cultivated fields that reflect the valley’s long agricultural use; shade-grown and cigar-wrapper tobacco became an important local crop in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hatfield’s center has the measured scale of an early New England settlement, while farm roads lead toward the river plain and the wooded uplands of western Massachusetts. The 1677 Battle of Hatfield, an episode of King Philip’s War, is part of the town’s colonial record. Browse other webcams across the Connecticut River Valley to place Hatfield in a wider geographic context.

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