THE INDIVIDUALS (chronologically by date of birth)   FRED L. ADAMS November 3, 1856 - March 24, 1944   AUGUSTUS S. WENTWORTH  February 26, 1860 - January 19, 1927 CHARLES FRED GOWEN September 6, 1861 - June 3, 1914 FLORENCE “FANNIE” (JORDAN) (WENTWORTH) (BATCHELDER) (WALLACE) TIBBETTS  August 12, 1867 - 1953 HARVEY EARLE ADAMS May 21, 1881 - December 21, 1918 CHESTER ARTHUR EMMONS February 5, 1882 - January 10, 1965 NELLIE ARLETTA (WENTWORTH) (ADAMS) WELCH September 20, 1890 - September 23, 1988 VICTOR STANLEY GOWEN SR. November 15, 1897 - December 9, 1961 FRANKLIN KING HURD April 4, 1901 - July 23, 1965 GRACE MABEL (JONES) (GOWEN) HURD September 7, 1902 - December 1962 PIERRE L. BLUTEAU September 30, 1909 - (body found March 13, 1975) CHARLES AUGUSTUS ADAMS November 28, 1910 - January 26, 1987 ALMEDA FRANCES (ADAMS) (TREW) HURTEAU April 2, 1916 - March 13, 1997 EDMUND "PHILLIP" LADD BADGER September 28, 1917 -  December 1, 1951 LAURA MAY (ADAMS) (...

 The Log Cabin Grove at Southwick Ponds was very popular as a day resort. The original structure was expanded before it burned down. It was rebuilt with sixteen rooms, 13 of which were guest rooms. It also had a ballroom and a dining room.  Guests could look forward to clambakes, dancing, live music, a "beautiful lawn, and grove … swings, steamboats, rowboats, fishing tackle, etc." (Roundtrip bus fare from Springfield to Southwick Ponds costs .50¢.) The Log Cabin Grove 1823: John Milton Hatheway is born in Suffield, Connecticut, on March 12.  1846: The Mexican-American War starts on April 25. 1847: During the Battle of Chapultepec (September 12-13), Lieutenant Hatheway picks up a dead sergeant's musket and fires several shots, effectively killing a Mexican sharpshooter who had picked off several men and was taking aim at him from up in a tree. (Author's Note: This is one of several heroic deeds done by Hatheway.) 1848: The Mexican-American War ends with the signing of...

A. Waldron Miller 1895: A. Waldron Miller is born to Henry and Ida Miller in Suffield, Connecticut, on October 9. (Born Alvin "Allie" Waldron Miller). 1923: Henry Alvin Miller dies. (He was a charter member of Southwick Grange and had one of the finest collections of Indian relics in Connecticut.) c. 1924: A. Waldron Miller radically transforms his family's massive lakefront property into a popular tourist destination, Miller's Beach.  1926: Miller's Beach starts a new advertising campaign announcing the opening of their new water toboggan and bathing pavilion; the campaign also touts Miller's as the safest of all Congamond beaches. Florence Luke of Thompsonville, Connecticut, is struck when a rider in a toboggan behind her crashes into her while riding down the popular incline water coaster off Miller's Beach in August. (Luke obtains prominent lawyer Samuel Sisisky to represent her in her $10,000 suit against Miller's Beach, which accuses slide owner ...