History, News and Stories of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA

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• 1726 - Great Barrington is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• 1761 - Great Barrington is incorporated
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
• General Henry Knox and his troops passed through here in the winter of 1775-76 with a load of 59 cannons pulled by teams of oxen.
  The cannons were captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point. They were transported from Lake Champlain to Dorchester Heights,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1839 - Great Barrington
  Great Barrington, Massachusetts
  Berkshire county. A very pleasant town in the valley of Housatonick river, 125 miles W. by S. from Boston and 14 S.... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1845 - GREAT BARRINGTON. [Pop. 2,704 Inc. 1761.]
  Great Barrington was once a parish of Sheffield, and was the shire or county town from 1761 to 1787, when the courts were removed to Lenox.
  
  The... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1854 - Great Barrington
  Great Barrington, a post-village of Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on the E. bank of the Housatonic river and railroad, 85 miles N. from Bridgeport ... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1863 - Drowning
  DROWNED.
  A son of Mr. George Pinnco, a soldier in the 37th regiment, whose family live in the cottage on the grounds of David Leavitt, Esq., of Gt.... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1870 - Mr. David S. Draper, of Great Barrington, Mass., refuses to be qualified as Representative elect, on the ground that he was elected without his consent.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 29, 1870
  
• 1886 - First Transformer
  The first transformer demonstrated by William Stanley in Great Barrington.
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• 1888 - The failure of the Berkshire Woolen Company of Great Barrington, Mass., occurred on the 27th. The mill employed three hundred hands.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  November 3, 1888
• Great Barrington Massachusetts, 1890
  Great Barrington is an ancient and beautiful town lying in the southwesterly part of Berkshire County, 174 miles west of Boston. It is bounded on the ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Great Barrington
  Great Barrington, bear'ing-ton, a post-village of Berkshire co, Mass., in Great Barrington township, on the Housatonic River, and on the Housatonic... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1900 - GREAT BARRINGTON. A SERIOUS RUNAWAY.
  A runaway occurred yesterday morning which would have resulted seriously if it had not been for the bravery of the driver, Frank McGraw, who clung to ... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1903 - FATAL TROLLEY ACCIDENT
  A Motorman Killed, and His Wife and Child and Several Passengers Injured in Vermont.
  
  GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., May 20. - By the derailing of a... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1916
  Great Barrington, a banking post-village of Berk shire co., Mass., in Great Barrington township (town), on the Housatonic River and on the New York,... Read MORE...