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Tyringham, MA
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Population
350 people. (345th in Massachusetts.)
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The Town of Tyringham, a valley town in Berkshire County, was formally
incorporated in 1762 as Plantation #1. But the community is one of four
whose history begins in 1735 when the Great and General Court voted to
create townships to provide some protection for the wilderness trail that
was at that time the main route between the lower Housatonic Valley and the
Connecticut Valley and Boston. Development of towns along and beside the
route was expected to make using the trail less dangerous and more
comfortable. The Court laid out house lots of between 40 to 80 acres and
allocated one to each of the 63 original settlers. Tyringham had
considerable good farming land even though the town is crossed by two heavy
ranges of hills.
Scandal erupted in Tyringham early in its history, when the townspeople in
1808 voted to dismiss their minister, Joseph Avery, after 19 years of
service. Avery sued and won reinstatement, and historians note the case
created the legal principle that ministers hold their tenure for life
unless
they leave by mutual agreement. But church members refused to pay taxes
for Avery's support which in turn led to the formation in 1809 of a society
of parishioners who voluntarily pledged their financial support for their
church and minister. This later became one of the models for church
support everywhere. Tyringham is said to have been given its name by Lord
Viscount Howe a few days before he fell at the battle of Ticonderoga, after
a town in England in which he owned an estate.
Hop Brook in Tyringham is considered by sportsmen to be one of the five
best trout streams in the country and President Grover Cleveland, visiting
friends with his wife at a summer home in Tyringham, fished Hop Brook,
although it is not recorded whether he caught anything. Along with summer
homes and estates of the wealthy, the 19th century also saw the development
of paper mills in 1832, rope factories and cider mills. These along with
farming served as the foundations of the town's economy. In the 20th
century, industry has largely departed, and the town is known as a rural
residential community which still serves as the home of wealthy and famous
summer residents and visitors.
Southwestern Massachusetts, bordered by Becket and Otis on the east, Monterey on
the south and southwest, Great Barrington on the west, and Lee on the northwest
and north. Tyringham is 16 miles south of Pittsfield and 137 miles west of
Boston.
Narrative compiled by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
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