Eagle Archives, Sept. 16, 1925: The Sun Printing Company, the oldest business concern in the city, started its life as a weekly newspaper when Pittsfield had only 2,250 persons.
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“It is rumored that we are to have a canning factory in this place some time this summer,” The Berkshire County Eagle said in 1904, triggering community optimism.
Pittsfield native Ralph G. Burton was a forestry dynamo. Among his achievements was the invention of the Biltmore Pachymeter, a device to gauge upper stem tree diameter from the ground.
On view through July at the Lee Library, a new exhibit about the history of Lee displays the transformative arrival of the railroad, the growth of the marble and paper