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New Ashford, Massachusetts - he area was called New Ashford Plantation as early as 1762, and is located on the natural divide between Lanesborough and Williamstown, and on the western flank on Mount Greylock.

New Marlborough, Massachusetts - Edmond Quincy, Esq. of the Great and General Court, announced in 1735 that there were four towns open for settlement along the road to Westfield and Sheffield. New Marlborough was laid out as township #2 in June 1737. Its first settler was Benjamin Wheeler who had drawn lot No. 25 of seventy two drawn for by settlers in December 1737.

North Adams, Massachusetts - North Adams, the second largest community in Berkshire County, was an industrial part of Adams until 1878 when the two were separated. The area was originally laid out in 1739, and was resurveyed and divided into house lots in 1768.