Berkshire County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2020 census,the population was 129,026. Its largest city and traditional county seat is Pittsfield. The county was founded in 1761. The Berkshire Hills are centered on Berkshire County. Residents are known as Berkshirites. It exists today only as a historical geographic region,and has no county government,with the exception of the retirement board for former county workers,and certain offices such as the sheriff and registry of deeds.
Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts,United States. It is part of the Pittsfield,Massachusetts,Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area,Stockbridge is home to the Norman Rockwell Museum,Naumkeag,a public garden and historic house,the Austen Riggs Center,and Chesterwood,home and studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French.
Theodore Sedgwick was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served in elected state government and as a delegate to the Continental Congress,a U.S. representative,and a senator from Massachusetts. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate from June to December 1798. He also served as the fourth speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1802 and served there for the rest of his life.
The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic dialect and accent,Harvard University,Anglicanism,and traditional British American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". With her work much in demand,from the 1820s to the 1850s,Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals. She became one of the most notable female novelists of her time. She wrote work in American settings,and combined patriotism with protests against historic Puritan oppressiveness. Her topics contributed to the creation of a national literature,enhanced by her detailed descriptions of nature. Sedgwick created spirited heroines who did not conform to the stereotypical conduct of women at the time. She promoted Republican motherhood.
The Boston and Albany Railroad was a railroad connecting Boston,Massachusetts to Albany,New York,later becoming part of the New York Central Railroad system,Conrail,and CSX Transportation. The line is currently used by CSX for freight. Passenger service is provided on the line by Amtrak,as part of their Lake Shore Limited service,and by the MBTA Commuter Rail system,which owns the section east of Worcester and operates it as its Framingham/Worcester Line.
The Housatonic Railroad is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England and eastern New York. It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York,New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut,and has since expanded north and south,as well as west into New York State.
Francis Williams Rockwell was a United States representative from Massachusetts. Born in Pittsfield,Massachusetts,his father was Julius Rockwell,also a member of Congress.
Barnabas Bidwell was an author,teacher and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries,active in Massachusetts and Upper Canada. Educated at Yale,he practised law in western Massachusetts and served as treasurer of Berkshire County. He served in the state legislature as representative and senator,as well as in the United States Congress as spokesman for the administration of Thomas Jefferson. He was effective in defending the administration's positions and passing important legislation,and was the Massachusetts Attorney General from 1807 to 1810,when exaggerated press accounts of irregularities in the Berkshire County books halted his political career and prompted his flight to Upper Canada. Bidwell later paid the $63.18,plus fines,which he attributed to a Berkshire County clerk while he was away on duties in Boston. Nonetheless,the controversy,exaggerated in the press by his Federalist Party enemies,effectively scuppered his potential appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Theodore Sedgwick III was an American attorney and author on legal topics.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick III was an American lawyer and author.
The Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center is a transit facility located in downtown Pittsfield,Massachusetts. The $11 million facility is named after Joseph Scelsi,a longtime State Representative who represented Pittsfield. Owned by the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA),it is serviced by local BRTA bus services,Amtrak intercity rail service,and Peter Pan intercity bus service. The second floor of the building houses two classrooms used by Berkshire Community College and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Harmanus Bleecker was an attorney in Albany,New York. A Federalist,he is most notable for his service as a member of the New York State Assembly,a United States representative from New York,and Chargéd'Affaires to the Netherlands.
The Berkshire Eagle is an American daily newspaper published in Pittsfield,Massachusetts,and covering all of Berkshire County,as well as four New York communities near Pittsfield. It is considered a newspaper of record for Berkshire County,Massachusetts.
Timothy Childs Jr. was a U.S. Representative from New York. He represented Monroe County for eight non-consecutive terms in Congress between 1829 and 1843.
Joseph Tucker was an American politician who served as the 28th Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1873.
Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick (1788–1867) was a 19th-century American writer specializing in children's novels. She also painted a watercolor-on-ivory portrait of an ex-slave who came to work for her family.
The Dwight family of New England had many members who were military leaders,educators,jurists,authors,businessmen and clergy.
The Sedgwick family is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics,law,business,and the arts. The earliest known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire,England,who arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony,as part of the Great Migration. Sedgwick,Maine,was named in his honor. The Sedgwick Pie is the family's cemetery located in Stockbridge Cemetery,Stockbridge,Massachusetts.
James Robbins Lawrence was an American lawyer,politician,and judge from New York.
