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• 1738 - Bernardston is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1762 - Bernardston is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1839 - Bernardston
  Bernardston, Massachusetts
  Franklin county. This is a township of superior land for agricultural purposes, considerably elevated, between Fall and Connecticut rivers. It was formerly called Fall Town. There was a fort here in 1746, when this part of the county was peopled mostly by Indians. It was ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - BERNARDSTON. [Pop. 992. Inc. 1762.]
  This town, with Leyden, was originally granted by the State to the officers and soldiers who were in the battle at Turner's Falls, in the town of Gill.
  
  It was named Bernardston, in honor of Francis Bernard, who was Governor of the State from 1760 to 1769, and, by his attachment to the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1848 - Bernardston
  In 1735, the general assembly of the province of Massachusetts Bay granted a tract of land six miles square, north of Greenfield, including the present towns of Bernardston and. Levden, and a part. of Coleraine, to the officers and soldiers who were in the Fall Fight, an account of which may be...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Bernardstown
  Bernardstown, a post-township of Franklin county, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River railroad, 100 miles W. N. W. from Boston. Population, 937.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
• Bernardston Massachusetts, 1890
  Bernardston lies midway of the northern border of Franklin County, 96 miles northwest of Boston. It has Vernon and Guilford, in Vermont, on the north; on the east is Northfield; on the south, Gill and Greenfield; and on the west, Leyden. The town is quite near six miles long by four wide,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Bernardston
  Ber/ nardston, a post-hamlet of Franklin Co., Mass., on the Connecticut River Railroad, 7 miles N. of Greenfield. It has 4 churches, a public library, a school called Powers Institute, and saw-mills, a grist-mill, and a cutlery factory. Pop. in 1890, 770.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
  
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  West Mountain, Bernardston, Mass.
  Looking west from the Hotel, The Read.
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  Main Street, Bernardston, Mass.
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• 1916
  Ber'nardston, a post-village and township (town) of Franklin co., Mass., on the Connecticut River R., 7 miles N. of Greenfield. Pop. of the town in 1900, 792.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
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  Gladioli in Bloom at Bernardston Inn, Bernardston, Mass.
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