. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . ppella-tion. There are some quarries of granite here, from which good materialfor building is obtained. Box, brush, and shoe making are carried on tosome extent j and much wood and timber are sent to market. There TYNGSBOROUGTI — TYRING IT AM. 509 are three churches, — a Unitarian (organized in 1755), a Congregational(founded April 1, 1868), and a Baptist church,—one post-office, and anacademy, to the founding and support of which Mrs. Wiuslow was aliberal contributor. The number of public schools is seven, and they are in an excellentcondition. ,
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . ppella-tion. There are some quarries of granite here, from which good materialfor building is obtained. Box, brush, and shoe making are carried on tosome extent j and much wood and timber are sent to market. There TYNGSBOROUGTI — TYRING IT AM. 509 are three churches, — a Unitarian (organized in 1755), a Congregational(founded April 1, 1868), and a Baptist church,—one post-office, and anacademy, to the founding and support of which Mrs. Wiuslow was aliberal contributor. The number of public schools is seven, and they are in an excellentcondition. , The first white settler of this pleasant valley was an Englishmanwho bore the name of Cromwell. His was the only house betweenWoburn and Canada. In trading with the Indians, he weighed theirfurs and peltries with his foot. On discovering his dishonesty, theyburned his hut, and drove him from the place. Not many years ago,a sum of money was found buried in a field near by, which Cromwell issupposed to have left behind him in his MERRIMACK RIVER, SHOWING THE RESIDENCES OF DR. DCTTON, NATH. AND WM. BRINEET. The first minister of the town was the Rev. Samuel Lawrence, settledin 1790. Johx S. Sleeper, Esq., editor of The Boston Journal from 1834to 1854, was born here Sept. 21, 1794. The rate of taxation is $ per $100; and the valuation, $308,400. rpT_.,^ __ ^/U Q y- is a small, mountainous farming-town, in thelyiingnctlll southerly part of Berkshire County, 142miles south-west of Boston ; having Great Barrington and Lee on thenorth-west, Becket and Otis on the east, and Monterey on the south-west. It has 63 farms, 103 dwelling-houses, and 557 are settled mainly in the valley of Hop Brook, which runs diago-nally through the town from south-east to north-west, and affords, withits branches, motive-power for five saw and one or two rake mills, and 510 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. empties into the Housatonic Eiver in Lee. Chaucers Brook (an outletof G
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