History of Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA

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 town consist of paper, iron castings, boots, shoes, leather, forks, rakes, palm-leaf hats, chair stuff, and wooden ware: annual value, about $35,000.

The surface of the town is uneven, and in some parts mountainous. "Hop Brook Valley" is a beautiful and romantic spot. There is a society of "Shakers" in Tyringham. See Canterbury, N.H.

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 chief business is agriculture.

Distance from Lenox, 14 miles ; from Boston, 125.

Tyringham, a post-township in Berkshire co., Massachusetts, 126 miles W. by S. from Boston. Population, 821.

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; which runs diagonally through the town from southeast to northwest, and enters the Housatonic River in Lee; furnishing, with its branches, the motive-power for two saw mills and two or three rake mills. The borders of this stream formerly abounded in wild hops. Goose Pond, in the northern part, is a beautiful sheet of about 225 acres, whose outlet is also an affluent of the Housatonic. Toby's Mountain, in the southwestern section of the town, was taken as a point of observation in the Trigonometrical Survey of the State. The soil, through rough and hard, is fertile; and the air is salubrious and the water pure.

The total product of the 76 farms in 1885 was $68,327. Tobacco was raised to...

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.

Tyringham, a post-township (town) of Berkshire co., Mass., about 15 miles S. by E. of Pittsfield. Pop. in 1900, 386.