Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District

	Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	The caretaker's house at Porter-Phelps-Huntington House
Location	113-115, 123, 130 River Dr., Hadley, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′8″N 72°35′7″W / 42.36889°N 72.58528°W
Area	114 acres (46 ha)
Architectural style	Federal, Colonial
NRHP reference No.	100008956
Added to NRHP	May 4, 2023

Location113-115, 123, 130 River Dr., Hadley, Massachusetts

Coordinates42°22′8″N 72°35′7″W / 42.36889°N 72.58528°W

Area114 acres (46 ha)

ArchitecturalstyleFederal, Colonial

The Forty Acres and Its Skirts Historic District is a rural historic district along the Connecticut River in Hadley, Massachusetts. Located north of the town center on River Road, the district is a rural landscape with a well-documented history of settlement and usage from the mid-18th century into the 20th century. It includes the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House and adjacent properties, which have been home to a succession of prominent local families. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.^[1]

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Historic districts	Amherst CBD Belchertown Center Belchertown State School Bradstreet Chesterfield Center Church Street Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech Cushman Village Dickinson East Village Elm Street Fort Hill Forty Acres and Its Skirts Hadley Center Hatfield Center Haydenville Hockanum Rural Huntington Village Lincoln–Sunset Lockville Main Street Middlefield Center Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge Mill–Prospect Street Nashawannuck Mills North Amherst Center North Hadley North Hatfield Northampton Downtown Northampton State Hospital Northampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center Old Mill Site Parsons, Shepherd, and Damon Houses Pelham Town Hall Plainfield Center Pomeroy Terrace Prospect-Gaylord South Amherst Common South Hadley Canal South Worthington Southampton Center Upper Main Street Ware Center Ware Millyard West Chesterfield West Hatfield Westside Williamsburg Center Woodbridge Street
National Historic Landmark districts	Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges and Chester Factory Village Depot
Historic properties	Amherst West Cemetery Bisbee Mill Building at 8–22 Graves Avenue Calvin Coolidge House Center Cemetery Center Cemetery Conkey-Stevens House Dorsey–Jones House First Congregational Church Gate Cemetery Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Goshen Town Hall Grove Hill Mansion Ireland Street Cemetery The Manse Miss Florence Diner Mountain Rest North Cemetery Old Chapel Otis Company Mill No. 1 Porter–Phelps–Huntington House Ringville Cemetery Ross Farm Smith Alumnae Gymnasium Strong House The Town Farm Theodore Baird Residence United States Post Office–Easthampton Main United States Post Office–South Hadley Main Walker-Collis House Ware Town Hall Ware–Hardwick Covered Bridge
National Historic Landmarks	Emily Dickinson Museum William Cullen Bryant Homestead
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts and List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

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