This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Ripples of History in Berkshire County Tales
A reflective piece traces Berkshire history from the Lenox Library through Balance Rock to Lincoln letters photographed in Pittsfield. It highlights Julius Rockwell and David Davis connections, Lincoln’s 1860 nomination, and local paths of early Republican thought, urging preservation of old letters as raw materials of history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Washington
Lenox Library
Charles Dickens
Berkshire County
Herman Melville
Balance Rock
Horace Mann
Lincoln
Reinhold Nie Dbuhr
Pittsfield
Julius Rockwell
Congress
Illneis
Rockwell
David Davis
Lincolns
Tlinois
Davis
Land Office
Washington
Jachusetts
Robert
Harvard
Massachusetts
Eagle
Illinois
Wendell Phillips
Huckster
Heaven
Superior Court
Walker
Lenox
Sedgwick Library Association