Adams (Adams)
Adams and North Adams were one town until 1878. They both began as East Hoosuck Plantation which was first surveyed in 1739 by Nathan Kellogg. Fort Massachusetts ’ fall in 1745 discouraged ...
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Becket (Becket)
The earliest History of Becket is marked by the development of wood and forest related products. The earliest settler established a saw mill on Walker Brook in the eastern part of the town in ...
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Berkshire Visitors Bureau (Berkshire County)
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Cheshire (Cheshire)
North Berkshire Township Number 6 was purchased by Nicholas Cook and Joseph Bennett, both of Rhode Island, in 1766. This tract was later divided into parts of Savoy, Lanesborough, Adams and ...
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Clarksburg (Clarksburg)
Settlement of Clarksburg began in 1769 with Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock and Nicholas Clark, the latter for whom the town was named. The agricultural interests of the early ...
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Commonwealth Communities - Williamstown (Williamstown)
Access data and information about Mass. cities and towns including local maps, schools, contact information and more.
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Dalton (Dalton)
"Americans: Encourage your own manufactories, and they will Improve. Ladies save your Rags. As the Subscribers have it in contemplation to erect a Paper-Mill in Dalton, the ensuing Spring; and the ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/dalton/dalton.html

Egremont (Egremont)
"The Town of the Ancient Trees" When the first English settlers came to Sheffield in 1725-26 they found a number of Dutch settlers with substantial farms in what is today Egremont. Dutch claims to ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/egremont/egremont.html

Florida (Florida)
Florida, located in the northeast corner of the county, has been called the "Bernardston Grant" and sometimes "Zoar". The town was incorporated in 1805. The first settler, Dr. David Nelson, ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/florida/florida.html

Getaway The Berkshires (Berkshire County)
New York City's country culture capital, the Berkshires, a great NYC weekend getaway. Guide with maps and photos.
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Great Barrington (Great Barrington)
The Berkshires venerable virtual community serving you virtually everything you need to know about Great Barrington
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/greatbarrington/greatbarrington.html

Hancock (Hancock)
The Plantation of Jericho was laid out under a King's grant in 1762. Asa Douglas of Canaan Center, New York, received 1000 acres. Others who received smaller amounts were Samuel Hand, Captain ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/hancock/hancock.html

Hinsdale (Hinsdale)
Hinsdale was founded in 1804 by the setting off of the Western Parish of Partridgefield (Peru). A settlement (old center) on the "plains" east of the present village (Route 143) was initiated in ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/hinsdale/hinsdale.html

Lanesboro (Lanesborough)
Lanesborough, originally called New Framingham and later Richfield, was established by a petition of seventy-six inhabitants of Framingham, Mass. and other eastern towns for a Wilderness township, ...
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Lee (Lee)
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Lenox (Lenox)
The Berkshires venerable virtual community serving you virtually everything you need to know about Lenox
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Monterey (Monterey)
The history of town of Monterey is also that of Tyringham because Monterey, or South Tyringham, was not separated and incorporated as a separate town until 1847. The first permanant settlers were ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/monterey/monterey.html

Mount Washington (Mount Washington)
Robert Livingston, a Scot who had married into the wealthy Van Rennselear family, established Livingston Manor in the Hudson River Valley in 1682. He expanded his claims to cover a large portion ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/mountwashington/mountwashington.html

New Ashford (New Ashford)
The area was called New Ashford Plantation as early as 1762, and is located on the natural divide between Lanesborough and Williamstown, and on the western flank on Mount Greylock. No written ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/newashford/newashford.html

New Marlborough (New Marlborough)
Edmond Quincy, Esq. of the Great and General Court, announced in 1735 that there were four towns open for settlement along the road to Westfield and Sheffield. New Marlborough was laid out as ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/newmarlborough/newmarlborough.html

North Adams (North Adams)
North Adams, the second largest community in Berkshire County, was an industrial part of Adams until 1878 when the two were separated. The area was originally laid out in 1739, and was ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/northadams/northadams.html

Otis (Otis)
With the laying out of Townships 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Tyringham, New Marlborough, Sandisfield and Becket) in June 1737, a portion of unincorporated land to the east between the three towns and Glasgow ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/otis/otis.html

Peru (Peru)
Northern Berkshire Township No. 2, Partridgefield, was purchased by Governor Francis Bernard, Oliver Partridge and Elisha Jones as land speculation in 1762. It was divided into 63 settling lots ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/peru/peru.html

Richmond (Richmond)
Ten years after Stockbridge was settled (1746), sections of land to the north known as Mt. Ephraim and Yokuntown were purchased from two Mahican sachems named Ephraim and Yokun. This area ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/richmond/richmond.html

Sandisfield (Sandisfield)
Sandisfield is the largest town in area in Berkshire County, being 53 miles. Today it is an isolated rural town which, other than three villages along Route 57, is heavily forested. Little is ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/sandisfield/sandisfield.html

Savoy (Savoy)
Savoy, Northern Berkshire Township No. 6, was auctioned in 1765 to Able Lawrence. Five years later it was again auctioned because he had not deeded it to any other parties. It was finally made a ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/savoy/savoy.html

Sheffield (Sheffield)
The first English settler to cross the "hideous howling wilderness" into Berkshire County was Matthew Noble of Westfield who arrived in 1725. The following spring he returned to Westfield and ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/sheffield/sheffield.html

Stockbridge Web (Stockbridge)
The Berkshires venerable virtual community serving you virtually everything you need to know about Stockbridge
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/stockbridge/stockbridge.html

Town of Becket (Becket)
Welcome to the Official Web site for Becket, Massachusetts. With the Virtual Town Hall, you can access our digital file of public documents, meeting minutes, and a calendar of events.
http://www.townofbecket.org/

Tyringham (Tyringham)
Housatonic Township No. 1 was laid out by a committee of Proprietors in July, 1737. It encompassed what is today Tyringham and Monterey. In 1739 John Brewer built a sawmill in what is today ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/tyringham/tyringham.html

Washington (Washington)
The Proprietor's Book for Greenoch was begun in 1761, also known as Watsontown, after a previous claim, and Hartwood. It was first called Washington in 1784, when it became a town. The town was ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/washington/washington.html

West Stockbridge (West Stockbridge)
Queensborough, later West Stockbridge, was assembled from part of Indiantown (Stockbridge) and the "Gore", a long border section disputed with the colony of New York. John George Easland, a ...
http://www.berkshireweb.com/themap/weststockbridge/weststockbridge.html

Windsor (Windsor)
WINDSOR, MASSACHUSETTS * Notchview Reservation * Windsor Jambs * Windsor Pond * Windsor State Forest * Notchview Reservation Route 9 Public Cross-Country Skiing 413-684-0148 (Related Links: ...
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Berkshires-The Beautiful (Berkshire County)
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