Historical Sketch of Pittsfield.
The Park in 1807.
similar course, and the first settlement on the Housatonic was made at Sheffield in 1725. The occasion of the next advance appears to have arisen from the attention pad to free education in Boston. That town, in 1735, because of its large expenditures for public schools, support of poor, and
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