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Encyclopedia Britannica



NORTH ADAMS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 760 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NORTH ADAMS , a city of
Berkshire
  county,
Massachusetts
 , U.S.A., situated at the junction of the N. and S. branches of the Hoosac river, and the Boston & Maine (at the W. terminus of the Hoosac Tunnel) and the Boston & Albany railways, in the extreme N.W.
part
  of the state. Pop. (1905) 22,150; (1910) 22,019. Area, 19.9 sq. m. In the city are the villages of North Adams, Greylock and Blackinton. Within the city limits are a natural
bridge
  across
Hudson
 
Brook
 , 50-6o ft. high, and ruins of Fort
Massachusetts
 , which was captured in 1746 by French and Indians under the command of Pierre Francois de Rigaud, Chevalier de Vaudreuil (1704-1772). North Adams is the seat of a state Normal School (1897). Among its manufactures are
cotton
  (especially
print
 ) and woollen goods, and boots and shoes. In 1900 the factory products of the city were valued at $10,941,495, and in 1905 at $8,035,705. North Adams secured incorporation as an independent township in 1878. Township government was abandoned and city government was organized in 1895; in 1900
part
  of Williamstown was annexed.


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