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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LMX_the-first-inter-collegiate-baseball-game_Pittsfield-MA.html
The First Inter-Collegiate Baseball Game
In America
Was Played On This Site
Between Williams and Amherst Colleges
Under the Sponsorship of the Pittsfield Baseball Club
The Three and One Half Hour Contest Was Won
By Amherst, 73 to 32
Game Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LME_adams-overlook-a-town-tied-to-the-mountain_Adams-MA.html
Adams Overlook: A Town Tied to the Mountain
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Adams Overlook faces east, looking over the town of Adams to the Hoosac Range, a branch of the Berkshire Mountains. Named after Revolutionary War hero John Adams, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LM0_pittsfield-soldiers-monument_Pittsfield-MA.html
For The Dead
A Tribute
For The Living
A Memory
For Posterity
An Emblem
Of Loyalty To The Flag
Of Their Country
(east face)
With Grateful Recognition
Of The Services Of All Her
Sons
Who Upheld The Honor And
Integrity Of Our Beloved
C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LLF_the-summit-an-island-above-the-clouds_Adams-MA.html
The Summit: An Island Above the Clouds
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Welcome to the peak of Mount Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts and the focal point of the state's first wilderness park.
Greylock summit is an unusual and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LKZ_veterans-war-memorial-tower_Adams-MA.html
Erected By
Massachusetts
In Grateful
Recognition Of
The Loyalty And
Sacrifice Of Her Sons
And Daughters In War
They Were Faithful Even Unto Death
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LKX_war-memorial-tower_Adams-MA.html
War Memorial Tower
The War Memorial Tower is Massachusetts' official commemoration of its war dead. Dedicated in 1933, it is made from slabs of Quincy granite that weigh as much as 8 tons; the evocative epigrams are from First World War-era poe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LKW_one-hundred-years_Adams-MA.html
One Hundred Years
On June 20, 1898, a plot of 400 acres around the summit of Mount Greylock was established as the first State Reservation wilderness park, to be enjoyed and preserved by the people of Massachusetts. Those 400 acres were only the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJB_the-summit-a-peak-experience_Adams-MA.html
The Summit: A Peak Experience Mount Greylock State Reservation
In millennia past, native peoples may have used the summit as a place of pilgrimage but left the peak in its wild, natural state. Farmers cleared the top of the mountain in the ear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LJ9_mount-greylock-elevation-3-491-feet_Adams-MA.html
Mount Greylock, Elevation 3,491 Feet
Six hundred million years ago, this area was under a warm shallow ocean. As the underlying tectonic plates shifted, their continents collided, pushing the land upward into a great range of mountains. The oce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LII_the-rockwell-road-to-greylock_Lanesborough-MA.html
1907
The Rockwell Road
To Greylock
Built in 1906-7 by the county commissioners of Berkshire. Named for Francis W. Rockwell of Pittsfield, one of the original Greylock commissioners appointed in 1898 by Governor Roger Wolcott, and chairman from …