21 Facts About Pittsfield MA

Pittsfield MA is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

Pittsfield MA planned to subdivide and resell to others who would settle there.

Pittsfield MA formed a partnership with Philip Livingston, a wealthy kinsman from Albany, New York, and Col.

Pittsfield MA was primarily an agricultural area because of the many brooks that flowed into the Housatonic River; the landscape was dotted with mills that produced lumber, grist, paper, and textiles.

Pittsfield MA was sentenced to six months in jail and a heavy fine.

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Pittsfield MA is bordered by Lanesborough to the north, Dalton to the east, Washington to the southeast, Lenox to the south, Richmond to the southwest, and Hancock to the west.

Pittsfield MA is 48 miles northwest of Springfield, 99 miles west of Worcester, 135 miles west of Boston, and 39 miles east of Albany, New York.

Long-distance ground transportation in Pittsfield MA is based at the Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center which serves as the station for Amtrak trains and Peter Pan buses.

Pittsfield MA is the largest city by population in Berkshire County, and ranks 27th out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.

Pittsfield MA is the county seat of Berkshire County, and as such has many state facilities for the county.

In 2011, the City of Pittsfield MA received 129 designs of prospective official flags from residents in honor of the 250th anniversary of Pittsfield MA's incorporation as a town, with the winning design submitted by Shaun Harris.

Pittsfield MA is the home to the main campus of Berkshire Community College and Mildred Elley's Pittsfield MA campus.

Pittsfield MA is the geographic and commercial hub of the Berkshires—a historic area that includes Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and author Edith Wharton's estate The Mount.

Many buildings in Pittsfield MA are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Downtown Pittsfield MA is home to the gilded-age Colonial Theatre, the Berkshire Museum, the Beacon Cinema, the Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Athenaeum, Wahconah Park and Hebert Arboretum.

Pittsfield MA has several country clubs, including the Pontoosuc Lake Country Club.

Pittsfield MA is home to two major lakes, Onota and Pontoosuc, both used for swimming, boating, and fishing.

Pittsfield MA is home to Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary, 264 acres of woods, fields, and wetlands maintained by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Pittsfield MA is served by Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to Boston from the Joseph Scelsi Intermodal Transportation Center.

Pittsfield MA is in the Albany television market and is the community of license for two stations in that market, MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYA, and a low power TV station, W28DA, which rebroadcasts sister station and NBC affiliate WNYT on channel 13 from a location on South Mountain in the city.

Pittsfield MA Community Television is a not-for-profit, 501 organization and a member of the Alliance for Community Media.