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Florida, MA
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Florida, MA below
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Population
676 people. (337th in Massachusetts.)
Official Town Website
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The Town of Florida is a village on the summit of the Green Mountain range,
in the northwest corner of Berkshire County. Quiet and peaceful now, the
town was once a boom town as the staging site for construction of a tunnel
through Hoosac Mountain. It is largely bordered by the Deerfield River and
is a succession of hills and valleys containing some of the highest peaks
in Massachusetts. Winter is long and cold in Florida and during the
Revolution when a band of troops tried to cross over the mountain in winter
they almost perished of cold and exposure. The first settler in Florida
was Dr. Daniel Nelson from Stamford, Connecticut, who arrived in 1783. The
doctor came by horseback from Longmeadow and settled on a homestead on the
Deerfield River. The town may have chosen its name, some historians
conjecture, because at the time it was named the most general topic of
conversation was the purchase by the United States of the territory of
Florida from the Spanish. A tourist guide to the Berkshires of 1889
describes the town as having elevations of 1,000' to 1400' and of
containing drives that "are grandly panoramic". From the top of Hoosac
Mountain the view shows Mt. Graylock, Mt. Adams, the Hoosic River,
villages, railroads and towns spilling down the slopes of the hills.
Florida contains one of the famous waterfalls of the Berkshires, the Twin
Cascades.
Florida's first boom time came in the second half of the 19th century, when
in order to complete the rail link between Boston and West, the railroad
had to bore a tunnel through Hoosac Mountain to North Adams. After surveys
were completed in 1850, work began at both ends of the tunnel. The tunnel,
when completed, was 25,081' or 4 3/4 miles long, most of which is contained
within the boundaries of the Town of Florida. More than a 1,000 men worked
day and night on the tunnel, and it took four years to sink the 1,000' long
shaft that bored straight down into the bowels of the mountain and over 20
years to finish the tunnel completely. In 1875 the first trains moved
through the 20' high, 24' wide engineering marvel which required the
removal of 1.9 million tons of rock at a cost of $14 million and 195 lives.
In more recent times the lure of fishing what has been described as "the
Number One trout stream in the county" has drawn sportsmen to Florida.
Recognized as a superior trout fishing stream by the state's Department of
Fish and Game, the Florida section of the Deerfield River is very wide,
from 25' to 150' wide and contains brown, rainbow and brook trout.
Residents in the late 1930's claimed that fish caught in Florida from the
Deerfield River were larger than those from anywhere else in the
Berkshires.
Northwestern Massachusetts, bordered by Stamford, Vermont, and Monroe on the
north; Rowe and Charlemont on the east; Savoy on the south; and North Adams and
Clarksburg on the west. Florida is 28 miles north of Pittsfield and 127 miles
northwest of Boston.
Narrative compiled by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
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Today's newest MLS listings
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SingleFamily, Detached
$259,000
2
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