Northampton Massachusetts is known as an academic, artistic, musical, and countercultural hub.
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20 Facts About Northampton Massachusetts
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Northampton Massachusetts is part of the Pioneer Valley and is one of the northernmost cities in the Knowledge Corridor—a cross-state cultural and economic partnership with other Connecticut River Valley cities and towns.
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Northampton Massachusetts hosted its own witch trials in the 1700s, although no alleged witches were executed.
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From 1842 until 1846 Northampton Massachusetts was home to a transcendentalist utopian community of abolitionists.
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Northampton Massachusetts went on to be a Massachusetts state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor before becoming vice-president and president of the United States.
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Northampton Massachusetts has a thriving cultural center and is a popular tourist destination.
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Since 1982, Northampton Massachusetts has been host to an annual LGBT Parade and Pride event held the first Saturday in May.
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Since 1995 Northampton Massachusetts has been home to the twice-yearly Paradise City Arts Festival, held at the Three County Fairgrounds on Memorial Day weekend and Columbus Day weekend.
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Since 2004, Northampton Massachusetts has been the site of Django in June, a week-long gypsy jazz music camp held annually on the campus of Smith College.
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Noho Screenwriters Workshop - a group for screenwriters - is housed in Northampton Massachusetts, as is Happy Wasteland movie studios, which produced The Answer and Heroes Don't Come Home locally.
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Northampton Massachusetts is bordered to the north by the towns of Hatfield and Williamsburg, to the west by Westhampton, to the east by Hadley, and to the south by Easthampton.
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Northampton Massachusetts has the most lesbian couples per capita of any city in the US.
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Northampton Massachusetts is the city of license for three commercial radio stations: WLZX-FM, WEIB, and WHMP.
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Northampton Massachusetts is home to WXOJ-LP, a low-power community radio station owned and operated by Valley Free Radio.
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Northampton Massachusetts is served by four exits of Interstate 91, which passes to the east of downtown along the Connecticut River.
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The City of Northampton Massachusetts is attempting to solve this long-time problem by redesigning problematic intersections and installing traffic cameras.
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In 2019, Northampton Massachusetts became a stop on the New Haven–Springfield Shuttle in a pilot program running from New Haven, Connecticut to Greenfield with adjacent station stops there northerly and Holyoke to the south, respectively.
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Rail freight transportation on the rail line through Northampton Massachusetts, which is known as the Connecticut River Line, is operated by the Pan Am Railways.
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Northampton Massachusetts Airport is a small general aviation airport located one mile northeast of the Northampton Massachusetts central business district.
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