{"id":25435,"date":"2023-05-02T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/?p=25435"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:07:44","slug":"towns-cities-in-the-berkshires","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/towns-cities-in-the-berkshires\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns & cities in the Berkshires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether called simply Berkshire<\/strong>, as Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/em> did, or the Berkshires<\/strong>, as most of us mortals do, the land on the western edge of Massachusetts<\/strong>, extending from the southern edge of Vermont<\/strong> to the northern edge of Connecticut<\/strong>, the former* county of Berkshire, contains 30 towns, two cities and many smaller, less formal entities, such as Glendale, Housatonic, and Lenox Dale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* On July 1, 2000, Berkshire county government ceased to exist; here’s the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Berkshire city and town homepages<\/h2>\n

The pages linked here are rudimentary homepages with image, historical sketch, and basic data for each city and town of the Berkshires.<\/p>\n