Lockville Historic District

Lockville is a small rural district astride the Manhan River on College Highway, about a mile south of Southampton center. For nearly two centuries the spot has served industry and transport. A natural drop in the river created a mill privilege, and the area was later crossed by the Hampshire & Hampden canal in the 1830s and a railroad in the mid-1850s. The district includes the Ichabod Strong House of about 1768, the Federal-style Lockville Hotel of 1828, a canal storehouse of about 1832, the only surviving stone-lined canal lock remnant of that canal in Massachusetts, a railroad trestle, the Lyman Mill moved to its present site in 1877, a 1938 dam, and the Lyman Sheet Metal complex begun in the 1890s. Mill pond and surrounding hills remain largely free of modern intrusions. It was listed for local significance under criteria A, C and D, with a consideration for the moved mill building.