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  History of Cheshire, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1766 - Cheshire is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
• 1793 - Cheshire was founded in 1793. Its parent towns were Adams, Lanesborough, Windsor and New Ashford District.
  The vital records for the period of 1750-1865 were destroyed by fire. Marriage intention records were at the home of the Town Clerk at the time of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1845 - CHESHIRE. [Pop. 985. Inc. 1793.]
  This town was formed from parts of Lanesborough, New Ashford, Adams, and Windsor.
  
  The town rises from the centre into hills well adapted for...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Cheshire
  Cheshire, a post-township of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, about 120 miles W. by N. from Boston ; intersected by the Pittsfield and North Adams...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1859
  CHESHIRE, a township in Berkshire co., in Massachusetts, 130 m. W by N of Boston. Pop. 985.
  A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
  
  
•  1888 - The Great Jefferson Cheese
  When Thomas Jefferson was chosen President Elder John Leland, a Baptist clergyman of Cheshire, Mass., proposed that his flock should celebrate the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• Cheshire Massachusetts, 1890
  Cheshire is a fine grazing town in the northerly part of Berkshire County, about 150 miles west, slightly north, of Boston. At Cheshire, Cheshire...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Cheshire
  Cheshire, a post-village of Berkshire co., Mass., in Cheshire township, on the Pittsfield & North Adams Branch Railroad, 10 miles N.N.E. of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Cheshire Inn and South Street, Cheshire, Mass. (1908)
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  Cheshire Pond, Cheshire, Mass. Boston & Albany R. R.
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  Reynolds Rock
  
  Reynolds Rock, a climbers' favorite, in Cheshire stands 30 feet high and sits 40 feet long.
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• 1916
  Cheshire, a post-village of Berkshire co., Mass., in Cheshire township (town), on the Boston and Albany R., 10 miles ENE. of Pittsfield. Pop. in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1926 - NINE INJURED AS CAR TURNS TURTLE. Locomobile Owned by Lester Carpenter, Overturns in Car Tracks. CHILD IN HOSPITAL.
  Gertrude Carpenter, Two Years Old, Has Possible Concussion - Others Not Injured
  
  Nine Adams people, riding in a Locomobile touring car, owned by...Read MORE...