title: Hampden Agricultural Society
text: # Hampden Agricultural Society
  
  The Hampden Agricultural Society was first proposed on December 24, 1817, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Following the publication of a notice the Hampshire, Franklin & Hampden Agricultural Society was formed on January 28, 1828.
  
  ## Scientific lectures
  
  The Society hosted a number of scientific meetings at Northampton and often published an account of the lectures.
  
  * 1827 Edward Hitchcock the professor of chemistry at Amherst College on October 24
  * 1829 Festus Foster on October 29
  * 1830 Samuel Clesson Allen, the politician formerly representing Massachusetts in the House of Representatives on October 27
  * 1831 Samuel Fowler Dickinson October 27
  