Everything about Enfield Massachusetts totally explained
» See Enfield, Connecticut for the town that was located in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1683-1749.
Enfield was a town in
Hampshire County, Massachusetts, location . The town was incorporated in
1816 from portions of
Greenwich and
Belchertown. It was named in honor of one of its early settlers, Robert Field. General
Joseph Hooker, Union general during the
American Civil War, was once a resident, and his grandfather was once a town leader.
It was centered at the junction of the east and west branches of the
Swift River, and the Athol Branch of the
Boston and Albany Railroad ran through the town. The town was disincorporated on
April 28,
1938 and portions of the town were annexed to the adjacent towns of Belchertown,
New Salem,
Pelham, and
Ware. (Not all of the former town is presently in Hampshire County; the portion ceded to New Salem is now in
Franklin County.) The headquarters of the
Metropolitan District Commission during the construction of the
Quabbin Reservoir was located in the former town, and was the last building razed in the
Swift River Valley, in 1940. The majority of the town center now lies submerged beneath the reservoir, although the Quabbin Observatory and Enfield Lookout, located on scenic Quabbin Hill, as well as the main entrance and headquarters of Quabbin State Park, a popular tourist destination with an emphasis on state history and nature, are all within the former town's limits.
Quabbin towns
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