Mount Tom, Massachusetts

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entering Mount Tom

Mount Tom is a village in the city of Easthampton, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1] It is located in a narrow strip of land between Mount Tom (the mountain) to the south, the Connecticut River to the east, and The Oxbow, an old channel of the Connecticut River, to the north. Interstate 91, U.S. Route 5, and Pan Am Railways' tracks all pass through the village's vicinity as they follow the Connecticut River.

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References

  1. Gannett, Henry (1894), A Geographic Dictionary of Massachusetts: United States Geological Survey Report 116, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.: United States. Government Printing Office, p. 74, retrieved May 9, 2019

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