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one of 28 National Register listings in Franklin County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Franklin County.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
East Charlemont District School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1811 MA 2, Charlemont, 01370
- When was it listed? 2017-03-16
- Category. building
- Township. Charlemont town
- National Register reference number. 100000721 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
33 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of East Charlemont District School between 2002 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 17 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 29 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 29 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
| 28 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Massachussetts State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Massachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control | not named |
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 764 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 764 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Charlemont District School between 1825 and 1975: 377 Plantae, 322 Fungi, 56 Animalia, 7 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Hodgdon; H. Bigelow;R. Livingstone, A. S. Goodale, A. T. Beals and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cardamine diphylla (Michx.) A.W.Wood | 1900 | F. F. Forbes | |
 | Carex pauciflora Lightf. | 1825 | Collector unspecified | Ashfield. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
 | Cinna latifolia (Trevir. ex Göpp.) Griseb. | 1847 | Russell | |
 | Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée | 1873 | H. G. Jesup | |
 | Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. | 1874 | E. F. Bishop | Deerfield River |
 | Diphasiastrum tristachyum (Pursh) Holub | 1874 | Jesup, H.G. | Conway |
 | Equisetum variegatum Schleich. ex F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | Sands of Deerfield River, Conway, Mass. |
 | Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt. | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | |
 | Lobelia kalmii L. | 1874 | not recorded | |
 | Lycopus uniflorus Michx. | 1874 | H. G. Jesup | |
 | Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb. | 1894 | Swinerton, J.R. | Greenfield |
 | Juglans cinerea L. | 1895 | C. W. Trow | Buckland. |
All 764 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of East Charlemont District School: 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Iron, Sulfur, Iron, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gossan - Not Prospected | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan In East Oxbow Brook | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan In East Oxbow Brook Prospect | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan Occurrence | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Pyrite Prospect | Iron, Sulfur | Prospect | ||
| Pyrite Prospect 1 1/4 Mi. S. of Davis Mine | Iron, Sulfur | Occurrence | Pyrite | |
| Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Luther Smith Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | Metamorphic | |
| Luther Smith Gneiss Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlemont, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Charlemont | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $8,000 | At 125 PM EST, several trees were down on wires on State Route 8A North in Charlemont. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Charlemont | $7,000 | At 3:57 PM EST trees and wires were reported down on Avery Brook Road in Charlemont. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $5,000 | Large limbs and a tree were downed near Massachusetts Route 2. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $1,000 | In Charlemont, there was a tree and wires down on Mountain Rd. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Charlemont | $1,000 | In Charlemont, multiple trees were down on Route 2. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Charlemont | $500 | In Charlemont, a tree was down blocking Rt. 2 around mile marker 26. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Charlemont | $500 | In Buckland, a pole was snapped and wires were down on Avery Rd. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | $500 | In Charlemont, there was a tree down blocking South River Rd. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Charlemont | - | In Charlemont, flash flooding washed out a section of route 2. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Charlemont | - | At 128 PM EST, one-inch diameter hail fell in Hawley. Hail was reported to be covering the ground. |
| August 2012 | Flood | Charlemont | - | Route 2 was flooded with 2 feet of water. Firefighters trying to get to the Rowe Elementary School were delayed due to the flooding. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Charlemont | - | After receiving six to eight inches of rain associated with Tropical Storm Irene, the Deerfield River flooded, closing portions of Route 2 in Charlemont. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Charlemont | - | Ping pong ball to golfball size hail fell in a swath from Charlemont to Heath. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | - | Trees down. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Charlemont | - | Penny size hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Charlemont | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Charlemont | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Charlemont | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Charlemont | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griswold, Maj. Joseph, House | 2.3 miles | 1972 | |
| Odd Fellow's Hall | 2.8 miles | 1979 | |
| Bissell Bridge | 4.2 miles | 2004 | |
| Smith, Arthur A., Covered Bridge | 4.7 miles | 1983 | |
| Shelburne Free Public Library | 5.5 miles | 2016 | |
| Bardwell's Ferry Bridge | 7.3 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100000721 in Record Group 79. |
| Franklin County | All 28 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.