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Towns and cities of the Berkshires

Lenox Academy in downtown Lenox in the Berkshires; Dave Read photo.
Lenox Academy in downtown Lenox in the Berkshires; Dave Read photo.

Whether called simply Berkshire, as Nathaniel Hawthorne did, or the Berkshires, as most of us mortals do, the land on the western edge of Massachusetts, extending from the southern edge of Vermont to the northern edge of Connecticut, the former* county of Berkshire, contains 30 towns, two cities and many smaller, less formal entities, such as Glendale, Housatonic, and Lenox Dale.

* On July 1, 2000, Berkshire county government ceased to exist; here’s the story.

Berkshire city and town homepages

The pages linked here are rudimentary homepages with image, historical sketch, and basic data for each city and town of the Berkshires.

Parks and recreation in the Berkshires
Fanny Kemble, Berkshires first literary refugee
Writers of the Berkshires
Cheshire Lake canoe trip, Sept. 2024
Beethoven at Tanglewood, Aug. 28, 2022
Tanglewood lawn scenes, Itzhak Perlman concert, August 21, 2022
Benedict Pond, Beartown State Forest, Aug. 2022
Ice Glen, Stockbridge, MA coolest hike in the Berkshires
Canoe meadows June 2022
High Lawn Farm, Lee MA
Bullard Woods Gould Meadow May 2022
Peeskawso Peak, Monument Mountain, July, 2021
Mahanna Cobble, Berkshires, August 2020
Tanglewood shuttered 2020
Art Hole in the Berkshires
Paean to an Eminence
The Flush Plinths of Lenox
Adams, MA
Alford, Mass.
Becket, Mass.
Cheshire, Mass
Clarksburg, Mass
Dalton, Mass.
Egremont, Mass
Florida, MA
Great Barrington, MA
Hancock, MA
Hinsdale, Mass.
Lanesborough, Mass.
Lee, Mass
Lenox, MA
Monterey, Mass.
Mt. Washington, Mass.
New Ashford, Mass.
New Marlborough, Mass.
North Adams, MA
Otis, Mass
Peru, Mass.
Pittsfield, Mass
Richmond, MA
Sandisfield, Mass.
Savoy, Mass.
Sheffield, Mass.
Stockbridge, MA
Tyringham, Mass.
Washington, Mass.
West Stockbridge, MA
Williamstown, MA
Windsor, Mass.

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