Women’s History in Life & Death:

A Walking Tour of Bridge Street Cemetery

Event Details

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

156 Bridge Street
Northampton MA
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  • Registration is required
  • Attendance is limited to 15
  • Sliding scale admission: $10 – $25
Gravestone of Sylva Church (died April 12, 1822 at age 66) in the Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Mass. Sacred to the memory of Sylva Church, A coloured woman who for many years lived in the family of N. Storrs, Died 12 April, 1822: AE 66. Very few possessed more good qualities than she did, She was for many years a member of Mr. Williams,s Church, and we trust lived agreeable to her profession, and is now inheriting the promises.

Join Historic Northampton’s Elizabeth Sacktor for a walking tour of the Bridge Street Cemetery.  We’ll explore how gravestones, and their locations in the cemetery, help us understand how Northampton women have been remembered, or nearly forgotten.

The tour will visit the graves of ten women buried between 1776 and 1923, from early 18th-century midwives to the first Indigenous woman to attend Smith College.

Each woman has a story to tell, and by examining the grave itself and the material remnants of their lives, we will uncover these stories together.