Northampton is a city in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA.

Attractions

• Smith College is a women's college (one of the Seven Sisters) founded in 1871. It is also one of the Five Colleges.
• Clarke School For The Deaf specializes in oral education
• Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area, Rainbow Beach, Roberts Hill Conservation Area, Mineral Hills Conservation Area, and Saw Mill Hills Conservation Area provide a portion of the protected open space that covers 15% of the city.
• Look Park is a 150-plus acre recreational park founded in 1930.
• Northampton is becoming a rail trail hub. Currently, the Norwottuck Rail Trail extends ten miles from Northampton to Amherst and Belchertown, the 2.5 mile Northampton Bike Path extends from downtown Northampton to Florence, and the Manhan Rail Trail Spur extends 0.5 miles from Route 66 to Florence Road. Four other rail trail extensions are under construction, in the bidding process, or planned for the short term.
• The Botanic Garden of Smith College is a diverse outdoor collection of trees, shrubs, and plants, as well as a fine collection of plant conservatories for the tropics, semi-tropics, and desert regions. It also includes an indoor greenhouse.
• The Three County Fair claims to be the "longest consecutive running agricultural fair in the country," having been established and incorporated in 1818.
• The Northampton Independent Film Festival (NIFF) is held each fall. It is one of the largest in New England.
• The Academy of Music, built in 1890 by Edward H.R. Lyman, is the only municipally owned theatre in the nation, and was the first to be so owned; it is also one of the six oldest theatres, nationally. Boris Karloff and Harry Houdini (who installed a trap door in the stage) performed here. The Academy is still in operation today.
• Each May, students from the Northampton Community Music Center (NCMC) fill the streets with music.
• Thornes Marketplace in downtown Northampton contains shops, restaurants, a gallery and a performing space where local dance and theater performances occur regularly.

On a small hill overlooking the city sits a simple stone monument marking the spot of the hangings of Daley and Halligan, two Irishmen wrongfully acused of muder in the early 1800's.