Located at 225 Nonotuck St. in Florence, the museum at the David Ruggles Center for History and Education is open to in-person visitors, Sunday afternoons, 12-4, June-October. Visits can also be arranged by appointment- please email info@davidrugglescenter.org. Covid Protocol: Masks are required for vaccinated people. We intend to keep the galleries uncrowded. If there is [...]

Join your Northampton Neighbors for a walking tour of the abolitionist history of Florence. Learn about the radical abolitionist utopian community that settled the village in the 1840s and left a lasting imprint. We meet at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue at the intersection of Pine and Park Streets at 1:00 on Tuesday, September 21. [...]

The David Ruggles Center (DRC) is collaborating with Friends of Northampton Trails (FNT) to offer a guided bike tour of the notable homesteads and landmarks of the mid-19th century Utopian community experiment in Florence, MA that sought to create a society based on equality of race, class and gender. Tom Goldscheider, a member of the [...]

Stop by our table next Saturday during your stroll on Florence Night Out as we celebrate our neighborhood past and present. Take a few minutes to imagine 175 years ago when some of our country's greatest fighters for racial justice as well as economic and gender equality walked the same streets that we step on [...]