Editing Northampton, Massachusetts (section)

=== Partition ===
Northampton was part of the [[Equivalent Lands]] compromise.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle04barbgoog/page/n340 <!-- pg=313 --> ''Historical Collections'']; John Warner Barber; Dorr; 1841; P. 313.</ref> Its territory was enlarged beyond the original settlement, but later portions would be carved up into separate cities, towns, and municipalities. [[Southampton, Massachusetts|Southampton]], for example, was incorporated in 1775 and included parts of the territories of modern [[Montgomery, Massachusetts|Montgomery]] (incorporated in 1780) and [[Easthampton, Massachusetts|Easthampton]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chronos-historical.org/highway/maps/map11.jpg |title=Map of history of political boundaries c1775 |access-date=November 20, 2011}}</ref> [[Westhampton, Massachusetts|Westhampton]] was incorporated in 1778 and Easthampton in 1809.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chronos-historical.org/highway/maps/map14.jpg |title=Map of history of political boundaries, Federal period |access-date=November 20, 2011}}</ref> A hamlet of Northampton, called [[Smith's Ferry, Holyoke, Massachusetts|Smith's Ferry]], became separated from the rest of the city with the drawing of boundaries for Easthampton. Because the village was separated by [[Mount Tom (Massachusetts)|Mount Tom]], the shortest path to from the downtown to this area was a road near the Connecticut River [[The Oxbow (Connecticut river)|oxbow]], which was frequently subject to flooding. This led to many services such as fire and police being provided by the city of [[Holyoke]] rather than Northampton's own municipal departments, and after a number of negotiations between the two cities, Smith's Ferry was ceded to [[Holyoke, Massachusetts|Holyoke]] in 1909 for a sum of $62,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chronos-historical.org/highway/07.html |title=US-5: A Highway to History |publisher=Chronos-historical.org |access-date=November 20, 2011}}</ref><ref name="act">{{cite act| title = An act to establish the boundary line between the cities of Northampton and Holyoke| type = Massachusetts General Law| number = Ch. 480| date = June 9, 1909| page = 498-502| url = http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/actsResolves/1909/1909acts0480.pdf| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160630205430/http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/actsResolves/1909/1909acts0480.pdf| archive-date=30 June 2016| access-date = June 30, 2016
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