At the dawn of the new millennium, the City of North Adams is undergoing a most improbable renaissance. Long an industrial and manufacturing center and home of the only marble bridge in North America, North Adams now houses the world’s largest museum of contemporary art - MASSMoCA, which opened on Memorial Day, 1999.
Get directions: map of North Adams, MA.
North Adams, MA facts:
- Town Hall: 10 Main St.
- Phone: (413) 662-3000
- Population: 14,681
- Settled/Inc’d: 1768
- Named for: (see note on original
name) - Elevation: 800′
- Demographic data: mass.gov/
- North Adams Public Library:
www.naplibrary.com
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
“The original towns in the area, predecessors of Adams, North Adams and Williamstown, were called East and West Hoosick, East and West Hoosuck, and East and West Hoosac, apparently depending on the idiosyncracies of eighteenth century spelling. It is all very confusing to anyone wishing to spell Hoosic, for to be certain one must know whether the reference is to a mountain, a river, or a town. The origin of the name is simpler; in the Indian language it means ‘a stony place’.” (The Berkshire Hills, by Federal Writers’ Project, © 1939, Berkshire Hills Conference, Inc.)
“The original towns in the area, predecessors of Adams, North Adams and Williamstown, were called East and West Hoosick, East and West Hoosuck, and East and West Hoosac, apparently depending on the idiosyncracies of eighteenth century spelling. It is all very confusing to anyone wishing to spell Hoosic, for to be certain one must know whether the reference is to a mountain, a river, or a town. The origin of the name is simpler; in the Indian language it means ‘a stony place’.” (The Berkshire Hills, by Federal Writers’ Project, © 1939, Berkshire Hills Conference, Inc.)
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