Cheshire, Massachusetts Cheshire, Massachusetts Official seal of Cheshire, Massachusetts Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
Cheshire is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
The Adams Jefferson election of 1800 was difficult fought, and Cheshire was the only Berkshire town that favored Jefferson.
Because Cheshire, like their namesake, specialized in dairying and making cheese, they decided to send t to the president of a Cheshire cheese that used curds from every farmer in town.
One of the two monuments in Cheshire memorializes the cheese; the other memorializes the framers of the town.
The town had early forges and saw mills, grist mills and tanneries, and in 1812, the Cheshire Crown Glass Company opened, as did a triphammer operation.
The town also boasted the first factory in Massachusetts to manufacture cotton-making machinery. (Thomas, Jr., was very active in town affairs, and served for many years as a selectman, moderator, and town accountant.) The town's reputation for theological range continued, and in 1885 there were only 1,537 citizens in Cheshire but there were four different churches.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 27.5 square miles (71.3 km2), of which 26.8 square miles (69.4 km2) is territory and 0.69 square miles (1.8 km2), or 2.56%, is water. To the west, parts of Mount Greylock State Reservation take up sections of town, and includes a section of the auto road.
The Appalachian Trail crosses through the center of town, heading from North Mountain to Mount Greylock.
Cheshire is bounded by New Ashford to the northwest, Adams to the north, Savoy to the northeast, Windsor to the east, Dalton to the southeast, and Lanesborough to the south and west.
Cheshire's town center is positioned 10.5 miles (16.9 km) northeast of Pittsfield, 53 miles (85 km) northwest of Springfield, and 135 miles (217 km) west-northwest of Boston (although the town is closer to Hartford and Albany than its own state capital).
Massachusetts Route 8 is the chief route through town, crossing from south to north.
Route 116 also cuts through the northeast corner of town, and a several sections furnish panoramic views of Mount Greylock to the west.
The town lies along one of the routes of the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority bus line.
The town was formerly served by the Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad.
Most of the line was converted into the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail / u w lt k k/, an 11-mile (18 km)-long, 10-foot-wide (3.0 m), universally accessible, paved path connecting the Berkshire suburbs of Lanesborough, Cheshire, and Adams.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
Cheshire Town Hall Cheshire employs the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a board of selectmen.
The town's enhance library, which is attached to the town hall, is connected to the county-wide library network.
The town is roughly positioned equidistantly between the North Adams Regional Hospital and Berkshire Regional Hospital in Pittsfield.
On the state level, Cheshire is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the First Berkshire District, which covers north Berkshire County and is represented by Gailanne M.
In the Massachusetts Senate, the town is part of the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin district, which includes all of Berkshire County and Hampshire and Franklin counties, and is represented by Ben Downing. The town is home to the Fourth Station of Barracks "B" of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, Cheshire is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by Richard Neal of Springfield since 2013.
Massachusetts is presently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator Elizabeth Warren and junior senator Ed Markey.
Cheshire is joined with Adams to form a county-wide school district.
The town operates its own elementary school, Cheshire Elementary, which homes students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.
Both suburbs previously sent their middle school students to Adams Memorial Middle School in Adams.
The nearest state college is Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, and the nearest state college is Westfield State University.
He was born in Cheshire, Massachusetts, in 1844, and is buried in the Bozrah Cemetery in East Hawley, Massachusetts, in 1924.
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