Mt Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Genealogy & Early History

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                    "As we are on a great mounten, we desire your honers to give us the name of .......   Mount Washington"

                               - 1777 Petition for Incorporation

                                             

                                                     View of Mt Everett (the highest peak) within the town of                                                                View of Mt Washington, Mass from Baldwin Hill, South Egremont 2004 2004                                                    Mount Washington from South Egremont 2004                                                

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One Nation under God -

indivisible

with liberty

and justice

for all

    

                    

"This town among the clouds, as it were -   

 is not only rich in picturesque scenery,   

    but has an eventful & interesting history."    

              - Hebert  F Keith

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      LAND DEEDS HAVE BEEN UPDATED  

         Over 90 land deeds were added in August 2008

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Click on the links below to read about the history of Mount Washington & it's previous residents. 

stack of books falls from above animated gif"Mount Washington" by Herbert F Keith

        "Historical Sketch of Mt Washington"               by O.E. Lamson 1810-1904

      Historical  Address of June 1, 1907             Collections of the Berkshire County Historical and Scientific Society

Sage's Ravine - "Mischief & Miscellany"                                 SHEFFIELD - FRONTIER TOWN by Lillian E. Preiss, 1976

1862 Family History written by Stanton A Campbell 1817-1893

1752 document with a list of Dutch Farmers of Taughkanic Mountain (Mt Washington, Mass)

The Incorporation of the town of Mount Washington & Its soldiers of the Revolutionary War by Michele (Patterson) Valenzano descendent of Capt. Charles Patterson

  

  HELPFUL LINKS

The links below have been found useful in researching branches of Mt Washington Genealogy

The Sheffield (MA) Historical Society 

Columbia County, NY Genealogy & History

Dutchess County, NY, History & Genealogy

Litchfield County, CT AHGP Project

The Berkshire County (MA) Genweb     

Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's Public Library

Berkshire County Mass Cemeteries Project

 

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This web site has been created to be a useful tool for family researchers who have followed their family history back to the town of Mount Washington in Berkshire County in the State of Massachusetts. For further information please read About Me. If you would like to make an inquiry, suggestion or if you have any information you would like to see posted on this website, your contributions are sought, welcome and appreciated. 

  

 

 Orrin Whitbeck 1827-1911 Life long resident of MTW, Past Town Clerk buried in Mt Washington Cemetery 

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Old Burial Ground 

 

              Sage's Ravine 

 

 

Bash Bish Falls 

View Family Trees

of Mount Washington, Mass

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Lord, help me dig into the past

and sift the sand of time

that I might find the roots that make

this family tree of mine.

 Lord, help me trace the ancient roads

on which my fathers trod

and led them through so many lands

to find our present sod 

Lord, help me find an ancient book

or dusty manuscript,

that's safely hidden now away

in some forgotten crypt. 

Lord, let it bridge the gaps that haunt

my soul when I can't find,

this missing link between a name

that ends the same as mine.

- Robert Wood

         

       Church of Christ in Mt Washington 2006

 

Photo of the church on a 1906 post card

   

                                                                                                                                                                             This site was last updated 11/06/08

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