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African-American Heritage Trail

Aug 06 2015

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Housatonic Heritage

The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Exists To Illuminate The Diverse, Rich Identity Of The Upper Housatonic River Valley Region & To Preserve & Promote Its Historical, Cultural & Natural Resources.

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24 Main Street, PO Box 493, Salisbury, CT 06068
860-435-9505
info@HousatonicHeritage.org

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LAKES & PONDS – Free Public Boat Launches/Access
MASSACHUSETTS: Becket, Mass – BUCKLEY – DUTTON RESERVOIR – Yokum Pond Road Becket Center, Mass – CENTER POND (car top boat access only) – Route 8 Becket, Mass – SHAW POND – Route 8 Hinsdale, Mass – ASHMERE LAKES (car top boat access only) – Route 143 Lanesborough, Mass – CHESHIRE RESERVOIR – Route 8 […]
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Friends of Du Bois Homesite – Gt. Barrington, Mass
Friends of the Du Bois Homesite is a community-based organization that supports the restoration, maintenance, stewardship and awareness of the W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite, a National Historic Landmark, as a public memorial to the Great Barrington native who became a leading scholar and activist in the civil rights movement in the United States and […]
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Ventfort Hall Mansion & Gilded Age Museum – Lenox, Mass
Ventfort Hall is an imposing Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1893 for Sarah Morgan, the sister of J. P. Morgan. Designed by the architects Rotch & Tilden, it is located in Lenox, Massachusetts. The town of Lenox was the center of the social season in the Berkshires during the Gilded Age, the period between the Civil […]
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Hancock Shaker Village – Hancock, Mass
About The Museum—The Village today consists of 18 historic buildings set amongst farm, field, meadow and woodland, and a collection of 22,200 objects. The Hancock Shaker Village is a designated National Historic Landmark. National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality […]
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Naumkeag Museum and Gardens – Stockbridge, Mass
One of the Berkshires’ original gilded-age “cottages”, Naumkeag is famous for its eight acres of terraced gardens and landscaped grounds surrounded by forty acres of woodland, meadow, and pasture that stretch to the Housatonic River Valley. The gardens and landscaped grounds, first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, were transformed and expanded between […]
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Arrowhead, Home of Herman Melville – Pittsfield, Mass
Arrowhead was the home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863. It was at Arrowhead that Melville wrote his most famous work, Moby-Dick, along with three other novels, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter, a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales, all of his magazine stories, and some of his poetry. Arrowhead is a designated […]
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Norfolk Historical Society & Museum – Norfolk, Conn
The Museum is housed in the old Norfolk Academy, built in 1840, later used as the Town Hall and Jail, and located on the Norfolk Village Green. Since 1960, the Norfolk Historical Society has been preserving our town’s unique history and caring for our rich collection of artifacts and documents. Come see a wonderful display […]
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Stockbridge Land Trust – Stockbridge, Mass
Our purpose is to assist landowners in preserving the scenic countryside of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are also involved in facilitating the acquisition of land for affordable housing.
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Sheffield Historical Society & Dan Raymond House Museum – Sheffield, Mass
The Sheffield Historical Society maintains seven historic structures. The 1774 Dan Raymond House is both a period museum and houses the Society’s main office. Other buildings on the campus include: – the 1820 Parker Hall Law Office -a 19th century Carriage Barn that contains an exhibit of agricultural and related tools -an 1876 brick Education […]

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