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Tyringham, Berkshire, MA
Tyringham was formally incorporated in 1762 and Governor Bernard chose the name to honor a wealthy cousin, Jane Tyringham, who had just left him an estate. It is the only town in Massachusetts named for a woman, and there is no other place in the United States called Tyringham. tyringham-ma.gov
Tyringham includes: Jerusalem and Sodam.
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1735 - Tyringham is settled
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1762 - Tyringham is incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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1839 - Tyringham
Tyringham, Massachusetts
Berkshire county. There are several ponds in this town, from which issues a branch of Housatonick river.
Tyringham lies 125 miles W. from Boston, 14 S.E. from Lenox, and 35 E. from Hudson, N.Y. Incorporated, 1762. Population, in 1837, 1,288.
The manufactures of the... Read MORE...
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1845 - TYRINGHAM. [Pop. 1,477. Inc. 1762.]
Tyringham was named after a town in England.
It is hilly, and watered by ponds and their outlets, which run into the Housatonic.
Hop-Brook Valley is a beautiful spot, and near it is a considerable village of Shakers.
The manufactures, on a small scale, are various, but the ... Read MORE...
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1854 - Tyringham
Tyringham, a post-township in Berkshire co., Massachusetts, 126 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 821.
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.
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Tyringham Massachusetts, 1890
Tyringham is a small, mountainous farming town in the southerly part of Berkshire County, 142 miles southwest of Boston; having Great Barrington and Lee on the northwest, Becket and Otis on the east, and Monterey on the southwest. It has 457 inhabitants, settled mainly in the valley of Hop Brook;... Read MORE...
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1895 - Tyringham
Tyringham, téér'ing-ham, a post-township of Berk shire co., Mass., about 15 miles S. by E. of Pittsfield. It has 2 churches and a paper-mill. Pop. 517.
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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1906
Tyringham, a post-township (town) of Berkshire co., Mass., about 15 miles S. by E. of Pittsfield. Pop. in 1900, 386.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
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