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Hadley, MA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Hadley a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Hadley Home page. The Hadley Home page provides as much information as possible on Hadley. Knowing Hadley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Hadley’s Home page, you will also find Hadley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Hadley has a population of 5328. 45.4% of Hadley’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.6 are female. 49.5% of Hadley is married and 77.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $330,692, and the average rent is $1,152. Household median income in Hadley is $86,690, and the individual median income is $41,654. Hadley’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.3%), Black(5.6%), Multiple(3.8%), Asian(2.1%), Hispanic(2%), Other(1.1%).
Hadley's transformation from an old agricultural order to the new form is the direct result of expansion of the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1960s. Much of its former farmland was swallowed in the housing market stimulated by incoming faculty and off-campus students. Route 116 was redirected in an attempt to solve traffic congestion.
Route 9, which runs east–west through the town to connect Amherst and Northampton, became a hotpoint for commercial development due to Amherst not wanting development on its land, and large corporations such as Stop & Shop and McDonald's opened stores along the strip. Today, the Hadley economy is a mixture of agriculture and commercial development, including big-box stores and the Hampshire Mall.
Current big-box retail includes a Wal-Mart, a Target, a Home Depot, and a Lowe's, plus more than a dozen other stores. In 2003, an organization called Hadley Neighbors for Sensible Development was formed that opposed continued large-scale commercial development in Hadley by emphasizing the downside of such growth.
However, many local residents support commercial development, and about 1,000 people signed a petition asking for a new Wal-Mart, saying it would save them money on their groceries. In 2008, Wal-Mart pulled its plans to build the Supercenter after the Conservation Commission ruled that the plan did not comply with wetlands regulations.
The developer of the site (Hampshire Mall) filed and lost numerous appeals but continued its legal challenges of the commission's findings. Many residents also opposed rezoning to accommodate a new Lowe's store because they said it would be too big and would require more filling of wetlands than allowed by state law.
However, the rezoning passed in 2004 and the store was built in 2009. Lowe's then sued the town because it didn't want to pay the required sewer hookup fees. And, in 2010, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection found that Lowe's had illegally filled large areas of wetlands on that site and fined the developer more than $15,000.The World Monuments Fund listed the "Cultural Landscape of Hadley, Massachusetts" on the 2010 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites. Watch listing seeks to raise awareness about this rare survivor of 17th-century agriculture, promote visitation, and engage the local community in its stewardship. The landscape of Hadley is largely open-field farming, which was only used in the earliest New England settlements and had mostly disappeared by the 18th century; its survival in Hadley on such a large scale is unusual.
According to the World Monument Fund 165 acres (0.67 km2) are zoned for residential and commercial use, providing no long-term protection for the historic landscape.
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