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Crane Museum - Dalton, MA

Berkshire Museum
39 South Street
Pittsfield, MA
Open Year Round
Tuesday - Saturday
10 AM - 5PM
Admission

Founded in 1903 by Zenas Crane of Crane & Co., houses 300 seat Little Cinema


Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum
10 Willow Creek Road
Lenox, MA
May - October
Weekends

Giftshop, Restored caboose, Short Rides at 1902 station


Crane Museum
Dalton, MA
Main Street
Crane & Company, Inc
June - Mid October
Monday - Friday
2PM - 5PM

History of Papermaking beginning from 1801

Zenas Crane arrived in Dalton in 1797, and built his first paper mill in 1801. It was a one vat mill, with a drying loft which produced 125 pounds of paper, roughly 2500 folio sized sheets per day. Crane Brothers and Crane & Company became the major industry of Dalton. Preserved as part of the operation of the paper company is part of Zenas Crane's 1846 stone mill that is the Crane Museum. It is little known to most people living beyond the Berkshires that since 1879 Crane & Company produced all the paper that United States Currency is printed on.


Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA


Norman Rockwell Museum
9 Glendale Road
Stockbridge, MA
Open Year Round

Houses the original Norman Rockwell masterpieces.

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