Learn about the Berkshire’s Rich History
Berkshire Authors
http:/www.richardchasemears.net/Author
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http://members.authorsguild.net/rmears/index.htm
Herman Melville’s House (Arrowhead Museum) 780 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, MA 01201 (413) 442-1793 http://www.melville.org
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House (La Maison Rouge - across from Tanglewood) on Hawthorne Road. http://www.hawthornessevengables.org
William Cullen Bryant (Cummington, MA)
www.berkshireweb.com/trustees/bryant.html
Edith Wharton’s Estate and Gardens (The Mount) http://www.edithwharton.org
Famous Historical Figures who lived in the Berkshires
W.E.B. Dubois (Great Barrington) http://www.webdubois.org
Elizabeth Freeman (Stockbridge) http://www.elizabethfreeman.org
Agrippa Hull (Stockbridge) http://www.massmoments.org
Col. Robert Gould Shaw and Annie Kneeland Haggerty (Lenox)
George Westinghouse (Lenox)
Susan B. Anthony (Adams) http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org
The Stockbridge Mohican Indians (Stockbridge) http://www.mohican.com
The Vanderbilts http://www.americantowns.com/ma/lenox/news/sagamore-mrs-vanderbilt-s-fabled-adirondack-retreat-168493
The Morgans (built Ventfort Hall-Gilded Age Museum)
