Alford was settled in 1750. It has no stores, no motels or hotels, and not a single gas station. The Main Street has a church, a town hall and a one room school house; the buildings are all historic. Alford's population is approximately 400, and they all enjoy the landscape of beautiful trees,...
The Town of Becket is an upland town that was established in 1765, having begun as Plantation Number 4. The town was originally laid out in 1735 along with three other towns along the wilderness trail that connected the lower Housatonic Valley with the Connecticut Valley and Boston. The intention...
The Town of Cheshire has a unique monument to a famous cheese, and an interesting history. The valley town was founded in the 1760's by Baptists from Rhode Island, the first settlers in the region who were not of the established Puritan Church. The early colonists were mostly descendants of those...
The Town of Clarksburg is located in Berkshire County, just north of the City of North Adams and bordering Stamford, Vermont. It has a year-round population of approximately 1700 people.
The town combines all of the benefits of rural living in an area full of scenic landscapes, with an excellent...
The Town of Egremont is tucked into the green southwestern Berkshire Hills.
It is a small residential town of about 1,000 which serves those who have traditionally made their full-time home there as well as newcomers whose second home or weekend home is in the community. Egremont is a quiet town,...
The Town of Florida is a village on the summit of the Green Mountain range, in the northwest corner of Berkshire County. Quiet and peaceful now, the town was once a boom town as the staging site for construction of a tunnel through Hoosac Mountain. It is largely bordered by the Deerfield River and...
Located in the southwestern corner of Massachusetts, Great Barrington is a quintessential rural town with one foot in its rich history, and one foot firmly planted in the future. In its role as the commercial hub of the southern Berkshires, Great Barrington has successfully maintained its small...
Settled Circa 1762, Hancock is a quiet, peaceful town about twenty miles long and three miles wide, bordered on the east by the famous Berkshire Hills and on the west by the rugged Taconic Range. Hancock is the longest and narrowest town in Berkshire County. To the east, 6,600 acres of land...
The Town of Hinsdale is a small, quiet hilltown, nestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Its population of over 1,900 increases tremendously in the summer months due to the influx of people from more urban areas coming to enjoy the peaceful, wooded hills, lakes and fresh air.
The town of Lanesborough is in northwestern Massachusetts. Potter Mountain, of the Taconic Range, divides the town from Hancock on the west, and a spur of the Hoosac Mountains separates it from Cheshire on the east.
These two ranges, in a series of smaller hills, unite at the northern boundary at...
The Town of Lee lies in the valley of the Housatonic River between the Taconic Range and the southernmost extent of the Green Mountains. It was first settled in 1760, relying on agriculture and lumbering, and grew quickly enough to be incorporated by 1777. The town took its name from General...
Lenox is a small residential community adjacent to the City of Pittsfield in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. As the summer location for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, together with Shakespeare and Company at Edith Wharton's grand estate, the Mount, and several resorts/spas,...
The Town of Monterey is a resort town about 1200' above sea level in the Berkshires on the Mill River. Part of the Beartown State Forest is in Monterey and the vista from Monterey of Lake Garfield is considered one of the great views of the Berkshires.
The Town of Mount Washington is a residential community located in Berkshire County. The town is zoned residential with no commercial businesses or industries and is one of the smallest towns in the Commonwealth in terms of its population. The 1990 census lists 135 residents.
The Town of New Ashford, with its rough and mountainous terrain, was established in 1781. The town lies in the northern part of Berkshire County and has always been one of the smallest communities in the Commonwealth. New Ashford is well supplied with water, since the Green River rises in town...
The Town of New Marlborough is situated on uneven and hilly terrain on an elevated plateau in the southern Berkshires. It was one of the four towns established by the Great and General Court to settle and protect the wilderness trail that was the single route at the time from the lower Housatonic...
The City of North Adams is sited in the valleys created by the confluence of the north and south branches of the Hoosac River. It is an industrial community with narrow twisting streets that climb steep hills. The river valleys were known to be subject to flooding, so no large farming community...
Otis is a tiny rural community high in the Berkshire Hills, a paradise for outdoor activity enthusiasts. It is rich in year-round recreational facilities with many ponds and lake providing swimming and water sport opportunities. The Farmington River flowing through town offers exceptional...
Nestled within the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts is the City of Pittsfield, a place that residents note combines old-fashioned New England tranquility and charm with contemporary living. Incorporated in 1761, this diverse community of 50,000 people offers a rich quality of...
The Town of Richmond is a small, rural community located in Berkshire County. It abuts the New York State border and lies just south of the City of Pittsfield, where many of its residents work.
Richmond is noted for its scenic beauty, with tree-lined roads and shadows cast across the many fields...
The Town of Sandisfield is a small rural community located in the foothills of the Berkshires. It is a residential town which still retains some of the farming families that have formed the core of the town for the last two hundred years. The town prides itself on the fact that it has kept its...
The Town of Savoy is situated at an elevation of 1800' on the Hoosac Range of the Green Mountains in Berkshire County and its history begins with a real estate fraud. When the state needed money in 1762, it auctioned off ten township sites, but the successful bidder for Savoy asked for his money...
The Town of Sheffield is located in the Housatonic River Valley at the southern end of Berkshire County. With two distinct villages, Sheffield and Ashley Falls, the town's development pattern has been greatly influenced by its physical features: the Housatonic River and its wide floodplain; the...
Stockbridge, a lovely village located in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, is peacefully situated in a beautiful interval between the mountains and the Housatonic River. The town has grown from an Indian mission to a quiet village of wealth and gracious living to a resort town with the...
The Town of Tyringham, a valley town in Berkshire County, was formally incorporated in 1762 as Plantation #1. But the community is one of four whose history begins in 1735 when the Great and General Court voted to create townships to provide some protection for the wilderness trail that was at that...
The Town of Washington lies on rough and mountainous terrain almost entirely in the Green Mountain range in Berkshire County. The early history of the town begins with a real estate scam when Robert Watson of Sheffield in 1757 sold the land on which the town would be established to investors,...
The Town of West Stockbridge is in the western part of Berkshire County, a hilly town with peaks ranging from 500 to 900 feet above sea level. Its principal stream is the Williams River and the valley of the Williams is considered a very beautiful part of the community. The town was owned by the...
The Town of Williamstown is located in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, bordering Vermont and New York. Williamstown is a rural residential community that is the home of Williams College, a highly selective liberal arts institution.
The town creates a cosmopolitan flair in rural New...
Windsor is a small, rural community sitting atop one of the many lovely hills of Berkshire County. It is a residential town comprised of a few small farms, a hilltop general store which has been owned by the same family for several generations, and a population which shares immense pride in its...