21 Facts About Pittsfield Massachusetts

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

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

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

Ulysses Frank Grant, born August 1, 1865, in Pittsfield Massachusetts, was an African American baseball player in the 19th century who played in the International League and for various independent teams.

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Pittsfield Massachusetts 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.

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

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

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

Pittsfield Massachusetts is represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator Elizabeth Warren and junior Senator Ed Markey.

Pittsfield Massachusetts operates a public school system which has more than 6, 000 students.

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

Pittsfield Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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

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

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

Pittsfield Massachusetts 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.

Cable television subscribers of Charter Spectrum in Pittsfield Massachusetts receive public, educational, and government access channels, provided by Pittsfield Massachusetts Community Television (PCTV), on channels 1301, 1302 and 1303:.

Pittsfield Massachusetts Community Television is a not-for-profit, 501(3) organization and a member of the Alliance for Community Media.