Lenox, Massachusetts Lenox, Massachusetts Official seal of Lenox, Massachusetts Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
Lenox is an well-to-do town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
The populace was 5,025 at the 2010 census. Lenox is the site of Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Lenox includes the villages of New Lenox and Lenoxdale, and is a tourist destination amid the summer.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay thereupon auctioned large tracts of territory for 10 townships in Berkshire County, set off in 1761 from Hampshire County.
But because the Berkshires divided the town in two, the village of Yokuntown (named for an indigenous chief) was set off as Lenox in 1767.
A vein of iron ore led to the digging of mines under the town, and the establishment by Job Gilbert in the 1780s of an iron works at Lenox Dale, also known as Lenox Furnace.
In 1784, Lenox became county seat, which it remained until 1868 when the title passed to Pittsfield.
The county courthouse assembled in 1816 is today the Lenox Library.
In 1844, Samuel Gray Ward of Boston, the American representative for Barings Bank of London, assembled tracts of territory to problematic the first estate in Lenox.
The reconstructionfrom 1880 until 1920 would be dubbed the Berkshire Cottage era, when the small New England town was transformed into a Gilded Age resort similar to Newport, Rhode Island, and Bar Harbor, Maine.
In 1903, an acre in Lenox cost $20,000, when an acre in close-by towns cost a several dollars.
Lenox High School, 1908 building According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 21.7 square miles (56.1 km2), of which 21.2 square miles (55.0 km2) is territory and 0.46 square miles (1.2 km2) is water.
Lenox is bordered by Pittsfield to the north, Washington to the east, Lee to the southeast, Stockbridge to the southwest, and Richmond to the west.
The town center is 8 miles (13 km) south of downtown Pittsfield, 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of Springfield, and 125 miles (201 km) west of Boston.
Lenox is set apart from Richmond to the west by a branch of the Berkshire Mountains, with the highest peak in the ridge being Yokun Seat at 2,146 feet (654 m).
Massachusetts Route 7 - A, the initial path of Route 7, passes through the center of town, with a short distance combined with Massachusetts Route 183, which begins near the start of the bypass road.
The town center is 5 miles (8 km) from Exit 2 of the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90), the nearest interstate highway.
Rail service can be found in Pittsfield, and the town is served by the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA), with county-wide service through Pittsfield.
See also: Lenox (CDP), Massachusetts Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Lenox rates eighth out of the 32 metros/cities and suburbs in Berkshire county by population, and 244th out of the 351 metros/cities and suburbs in Massachusetts.
In the town, the populace is spread out with 20.8% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 26.9% from 45 to 64, and 24.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town is $65,581, and the median income for a family is $81,413.
Lenox employs the open town meeting form of government, and is governed by a board of selectmen and a town manager.
The Lenox Library, established in 1856, has occupied the former county courthouse since 1874.
On the state level, Lenox is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost suburbs in Hampden County.
In the Massachusetts Senate, the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin district, which includes all of Berkshire County and Hampshire and Franklin Counties. The town is patrolled by the First (Lee) Station of Barracks "B" of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, Lenox is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by Richard Neal since January 2013.
Massachusetts is presently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator Elizabeth Warren and junior Senator Ed Markey.
Lenox operates its own school fitness for the town's 800 students.
It is the only town in the county whose schools do not have a formal tuition agreement with any other town (other students may attend, however).
Morris Elementary School homes students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and Lenox Memorial Middle and High School homes students through twelfth grade.
In 1966 Lenox Memorial High School moved from its 1908 building to a new ground co-located with the town's middle school. The school's athletic squads are called the "Millionaires", in acknowledgement of the town's history, and their colors are maroon and gold.
Additionally, Lenox is home to two special education schools (Valleycrest School and the Hillcrest Center), as well as private schools, Berkshire Christian, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through undertaking 8, Berkshire Country Day School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through ninth grade, and The Montessori School of the Berkshires, which serves toddlers through middle school students.
The nearest state universities are Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, and Westfield State University.
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