History of New Ashford, Massachusetts, USA

Journey back in time to New Ashford, Massachusetts, USA

• 1762 - New Ashford is settled
  
  Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
  
  
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  Site of Ash Fort
  
  "...(1765), said to have been built of ash logs as the original block-house, center of the first settlement of the town of New Ashford."
  
  Massachusetts; a Guide to Its Places and People,
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• 1845 - NEW ASHFORD. [Pop. 227. Inc. 1801.]
  New Ashford, the smallest town in the State, lies between Saddle Mountain and the Taconic range. Branches of the Housatonic and Hoosick issue in o...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - New Ashford
  New Ashford, a post-township in Berkshire co., Massachusetts, 125 miles W. by N. from Boston. Population, 186.
  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.
  
  
• 1872 - Boston pays its female teachers an average of $67.92 per month, and Newton $65.54.
  These are the highest in the State. The lowest is the town of New Ashford, which pays only $16.
  St Joseph Herald
  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  March 16, 1872
  
  
• New Ashford Massachusetts, 1890
  New Ashford is a small farming town of mountainous, wild and broken land, presenting much beautiful scenery, situated in the northwestern part of Berk...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - New Ashford
  New Ash'ford, a post-township of Berkshire co., Mass., 12 miles N. of Pittsfield. It has a church. Mount Greylock is on its N.E. border. Pop. 125.
  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
  
  
• 1906
  New Ashford, a post-township (town) of Berkshire co., Mass., 12 miles N. of Pittsfield. Mount Greaylock (Saddle Mountain) is on its NE. border. Pop. i...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1916 - New Ashford had the distinction of casting the first vote in United States Presidential Elections, as Dixville Notch, New Hampshire does today.
  
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• 1920 - Following the ratifcation of the Nineteenth Amendment the New Ashford poll was where Ms. Phoebe Jordan became the first woman to vote in a national election on November 2, 1920.
  
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  Brodie Mountain Ski Area
  
  "Brodie was a ski resort in New Ashford, Massachusetts, in the Taconic Mountains in the far northwestern part of the state. It opened in 1964 and thrived for a time by using then-cutting-edge innovations like... Read MORE...
  
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  Springs Restaurant, New Ashford, Mass.
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