Westhampton is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. The population was 1,607 at the 2010 census. Westhampton was first settled in 1762. Originally part of Northampton, Westhampton was officially incorporated in 1778. The first town meeting was held on November 19, 1778, at which the Reverend Enoch Hale, brother of American spy Nathan Hale, was chosen to be the town's first minister. Westhampton is one of 8 "dry" towns in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, meaning that the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited within its boundaries.—Wikipedia
Wilder Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned by Amherst College. It is located on Snell Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, and was designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. It was renovated in 2001, along with the telescope. The Amherst Area Amateur Astronomers Association offers observing nights at the Observatory. When the Wilder Observatory was built in 1903, the telescope was one of the largest telescopes in the world at 18 inches, and it remains one of the largest refractors. Built by Alvan Clark & Sons, the instrument was shipped to Chile in the summer of 1907 to observe the planet Mars, which allowing for some then state-of-the-art pictures of the red planet to be taken, the telescope was then returned to its observatory.—Wikipedia
