North Adams, Massachusetts North Adams, Massachusetts Official seal of North Adams, Massachusetts Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Berkshire County and the state of Massachusetts.
North Adams, Massachusetts is positioned in the US North Adams, Massachusetts - North Adams, Massachusetts North Adams is a town/city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.
Its populace was 13,708 as of the 2010 census, making it the least crowded city in the state.
Best known as the home of the biggest intact art exhibition in the United States, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams has in recent years turn into a center for tourism, culture and recreation.
Bird's eye view of North Adams in 1905 North Adams was first settled in 1745 amid King George's War. During the war, Canadian and Native American forces laid siege to Fort Massachusetts (The Chimney made of contemporary remains positioned at the rear of the former Price Chopper Supermarket, which is behind the former Friendly's Restaurant).
The town/city is titled in honor of Samuel Adams, a prestige in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Massachusetts. For much of its history, North Adams was a foundry town.
By the late 1700s and early 1800s, businesses encompassed wholesale shoe manufacturers; a brick yard; a saw mill; cabinet-makers; hat manufacturers; machine shops for the assembly of foundry machines; marble works; wagon and sleigh-makers; and an ironworks, which provided the pig iron for armor plates on the Civil War ship, the Monitor. The use of Chinese strikebreakers, from California to break the North Adams strike of shoe workers was a step in the boss of Chinese from the West coast to the East coast, resulting in East coast Chinatowns in the United States.
North Adams was also the command posts for building the Hoosac Tunnel.
It also became the biggest employer in North Adams, with some 3,200 workers by 1905.
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS Mo - CA), formerly the Arnold Print Works and a facility of Sprague Electronics After Sprague closed, company and political leaders in North Adams sought ways to re-use the vast complex.
Williams College Museum of Art director Thomas Krens, who would later turn into Director of the Guggenheim, was looking for space to exhibit large works of intact art that would not fit in conventional exhibition arcades.
When Mayor John Barrett III (serving 1984-2009) suggested the vast Marshall Street complex as a possible exhibition site, the idea of creating a intact arts center in North Adams began to take shape.
Since it opened, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS Mo - CA) has been part of a larger economic transformation in the region based on cultural, recreational, and educational offerings.
North Adams has turn into home for a several new restaurants, intact art arcades, and cultural organizations.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, North Adams has a total region of 20.6 square miles (53.4 km2), of which 20.3 square miles (52.7 km2) is territory and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 1.31%, is water. North Adams is bordered by Clarksburg to the north, Florida to the east, Adams to the south, and Williamstown to the west.
North Adams is positioned in the valley created by the Hoosic River, which has been walled and floored with concrete in portions to prevent floods.
The city's Natural Bridge State Park contains the only natural white marble bridge in North America.
To the southwest, the town/city has the northern end of Mount Greylock State Reservation, ending at Mount Williams, which at 2,951 feet (899 m) above sea level is the highest point in the city.
The Appalachian Trail passes through the part of the city, crossing the summit of Mount Williams and briefly passing through Williamstown before heading north towards Vermont.
North Adams is the end of the Mohawk Trail, which ascends to the West Summit along a steep, curving road.
Route 8 also passes through the city, passing from Adams through the town/city and northward into Clarksburg.
North Adams appears on that highway's signs at Exit 26, positioned in Greenfield, MA Intercity bus service is provided in close-by Williamstown by Peter Pan Lines with connections to New York City, as well as suburbs and metros/cities between.
The nearest commuter rail service to North Adams is the recently re-routed Amtrak Vermonter in Greenfield, Massachusetts, an hour to the east.
North Adams is home to Harriman-and-West Airport, a small county-wide airport.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. The city, which is the smallest in Massachusetts, rates second (after Pittsfield) out of 32 metros/cities and suburbs in Berkshire County by population.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.74% under the age of 18, 16.9% from 18 to 24, 21.4% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
North Adams is governed by the mayor-council form of government (List of mayors of North Adams, Massachusetts).
The city's enhance library is the biggest in northern Berkshire County, and has access to the county-wide library networks.
On the state level, North Adams is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the First Berkshire district, which covers northern Berkshire County, and is represented by Gailanne M.
Cariddi of North Adams.
In the Massachusetts Senate, the town/city is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin district, which includes all of Berkshire County and Hampshire and Franklin counties. The town/city is patrolled by the Fourth (Cheshire) Station of Barracks "B" of the Massachusetts State Police. On the nationwide level, North Adams is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and is represented by Richard Neal of Springfield.
Massachusetts is presently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator Elizabeth Warren and junior Senator Ed Markey.
North Adams operates its own enhance school system, with three elementary schools (Brayton Elementary School, Greylock Elementary School and Colegrove Park Elementary School) and Drury High School, which also serves a several neighboring towns.
North Adams Public Schools Enrollment Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) enrolls about 1,980 students.
Founded in 1894 as North Adams Normal School, in 1932 the Normal School became the State Teachers College of North Adams.
In 1960, the college changed its name to North Adams State College and added experienced degrees in Business Administration and Education.
In 1997, the name changed to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, reflective of specialty school status inside the Massachusetts State College system.
In recent years, MCLA has begun to precarious more academic programming in the fields of fine arts and arts management, reflecting the region's expansion as a center of arts and cultural affairs.
North Adams Public Library is positioned in the Church Street-Caddy Hill Historic District.
Due to North Adams being the locale of MASS Mo - CA, there are various art arcades spread throughout the city, and a several of the old mills have been converted to lofts for artists to live and work in.
The town/city is home to the North Adams Steeple - Cats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL).
The Steeple - Cats play at Joe Wolfe Field in North Adams.
North Adams' first experienced sports charter was the Berkshire Battalion, an expansion team of the Federal Hockey League, which played a single season in 2014-15.
There are many athletic complexes and recreational fields throughout the city, including the Noel Field Athletic Complex, just south of the downtown, and the recently constructed Alcombright Athletic Complex, in the city's west end.
North Adams Chamber of Commerce website Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art North Adams Museum of History and Science North Adams Historical Society Bowman (1884 1959), educator, president of North Adams State Teachers College a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): North Adams city, Massachusetts".
Spear, "History of North Adams, Mass.
"North Adams Marking Monitor Anniversary".
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
History of North Adams, Massachusetts (1749-1885) History of North Adams Public Library Wikivoyage has a travel guide for North Adams.
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