Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . Sperry, of the same citv, receivedthe appointment and is the present commissioner. A custodian actingunder the commission occupies, with his family, the little house on thesunnmJt of Greylock. His duties are to cut out trails for approachesto the mountain, keep the roadways to and over it, superintend changesin the road or laying out spur-roads, and keep a lookout for forest family, for a small compensation, serve lunch to^ visitors. Tlie Greylock Reservation is the pride of the
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . Sperry, of the same citv, receivedthe appointment and is the present commissioner. A custodian actingunder the commission occupies, with his family, the little house on thesunnmJt of Greylock. His duties are to cut out trails for approachesto the mountain, keep the roadways to and over it, superintend changesin the road or laying out spur-roads, and keep a lookout for forest family, for a small compensation, serve lunch to^ visitors. Tlie Greylock Reservation is the pride of the Berkshires, and pre-sents an unending field for study. It is noted the world over for thevariety of its scenery, and Greylock mountain, its principal peak, thehighest point in the State of Massachusetts, commands a view of widestscope and unsurpassable beauty, and is annually visited by about tenthousand people. These visitors begin to arrive alx)ut the middle ofMay, and are numerous until early in October. Some drive from NorthAdams, a distance of nine miles; others from Pittsfield, sixteen miles,. Pi H BERKSHIRE COUNTY 13 the drive either way occupying ahnnt four hours. Many enthusiasticpedestrians walk from Wilhamstown. from Adams, and from CheshireHarl^or. There are foot trails from the Williamstown side of the moun-tain thnjugh the H(t])i)er. one frcim North Adams through theNotch, a distance of ahout five miles in either case. Probably the first white men in the region now known as Berk-shire county were Alajor Talcotts column of British troops, which in1676 passed over a route lying through the present towns of West Otis,Monterey and Great Barrington. Settlement of the region was in oneAvay delayed and in another hastened by the uncertainties concerning theprecise boundary line between Massachusetts and New York. It is as-serted that the first to come were from New York, and settled at ]Mt.\\^ashington as earh- as 1693, a Hallenbeck being named as the firstsettler, and
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