On the national level, Alford is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Cheshire is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Clarksburg is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Dalton is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Egremont is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Florida is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Hancock is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Lanesborough is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Monterey is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Mount Washington is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, New Ashford is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, New Marlborough is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Otis is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Peru is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Richmond is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Sandisfield is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Savoy is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Sheffield is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Stockbridge is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Tyringham is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Washington is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, West Stockbridge is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Windsor is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Ashfield is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

On the national level, Bernardston is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

Several places are named for him: Amherstburg, Ontario ( location of General Amherst High School ), Amherst, Massachusetts ( location of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Amherst College ), Amherst, New Hampshire, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Amherst, New York, and Amherst County, Virginia.

Moore, then President of Williams College, however, still believed that Williamstown was an unsuitable location for a college, and with the advent of Amherst College was elected its first president on May 8, 1821.

In 1770, Amherst became the county seat of Hillsborough County, due largely to its location on the county's major east-west road.

Public programs related to Yiddish and Jewish culture are offered regularly at the Amherst location, including concerts, films, exhibits, author talks, and events co-sponsored by local community organizations.

Amherst Island is internationally known as an Important Bird Area and a key migratory location for birds ; this fact has caused some concern for those wary of the proposed industrial wind turbine project slated to be built on the island.

Walmart famously lost its bid to open a store at the 420 Amherst Street location in 2006 – while Building 19 still had a lease there.

III location as Amherst played at Williams.

Malice was shot on location in Boston, Amherst, Holyoke, and Northampton in Massachusetts.

The format worked well for the company, which prompted them to remodel another location in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst into the Martin's Super Food Store format, and then later three other stores in Dunkirk-Fredonia, Derby, and Batavia.

Amherst has a K-12 School system ( a high school and a grade school ), a public library, and the Lettie Jensen Community Center.

And at a meeting on November 10, 1818, influenced more or less doubtless by the action of the Franklin County Association of Congregational Ministers, and the Convention of Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers in Amherst, the board of trustees resolved that it was expedient to remove the college on certain conditions.

It was against this backdrop that CSICOP, as it was to become known, was officially launched by philosophy professor Paul Kurtz at a specially convened conference of the American Humanist Association ( AHA ) at the Amherst campus of the State University of New York at Buffalo on April 30 and May 1, 1976.

* ( APAI ) Association to Protect Amherst Island

* 1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

* Amherst Papyri — This is a collection of William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney.

: Haldeman-Julius publications, 1936 ; reprinted: Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995 ), is frequently referenced on-line.

* October 29 – In Amherst, New Hampshire, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.

* July 1 – The first intercollegiate baseball game is played, between Amherst and Williams Colleges.

* September 18, 1821 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.

* September 18 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.

Amherst is best known as one of the victors of the French and Indian War, when he conquered Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal.

With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: William Pitt said of him " his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for ".

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1, 795 students in the fall of 2010.

In addition to being the most selective, Amherst is ranked as the second best liberal arts college in the country by U. S. News & World Report, and ranked fourth out of all U. S. colleges and universities by Forbes.

Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its President Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.

Williams alumni are fond of an apocryphal story ascribing the removal of books from the Williams College library to Amherst College, but there is no contemporaneous evidence to verify the story.

* A statue of the Earl mounted on a horse is on Khartoum Road ( near Fort Amherst ) in Chatham, Kent.

The similar but much larger Amherst – Northampton area of western Massachusetts is also a favorite hangout but is almost an hour away down Interstate 91.

Its most populous municipality is Amherst and its county seat is Northampton.

One of Patrick County's most prominent early settlers was Col. Abraham Penn ( sometimes written Abram Penn ), born in 1743 in what is today Amherst County, Virginia.

The Metropolitan Statistical Area of Lynchburg of is near the geographic center of Virginia and encompasses Amherst County, Appomattox County, Bedford County, Campbell County, City of Bedford, and the City of Lynchburg.

Other notable early settlers of Henry County include Colonel George Waller, Captain George Hairston and Major John Redd, all of whom were present at the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown ; Col. Abraham Penn, a native of Amherst County, Virginia, who led his Henry County militia troops with the intention of joining General Nathaniel Greene at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War ; and Brigadier General Joseph Martin, for whom Martinsville is named.

Amherst County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.