If there is one thing that there is definitely no shortage of throughout all of Massachusetts, it is plenty of beautiful small towns. Not a lot of states have that luxury. In fact, in most states, when you think small towns, it's could end up being more of a desolate ghost town. Luckily, that's not the case in the Bay State. And it just so happens that two of those most beautiful small towns you should visit in Massachusetts are right here in the Berkshires.
If there is one thing that there is definitely no shortage of throughout all of Massachusetts, it is plenty of beautiful small towns. Not a lot of states have that luxury. In fact, in most states, when you think small towns, it's could end up being more of a desolate ghost town. Luckily, that's not the case in the Bay State. And it just so happens that two of those most beautiful small towns you should visit in Massachusetts are right here in the Berkshires.
Eagle Archives, Sept. 23, 1955: Our oldest Berkshire painter, and one of our least-publicized, is packing his brushes and oils today for a move that will bring him new landscapes
Rural Massachusetts towns paid thousands less per acre than wealthier communities for state-owned land, report reveals
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Savoy, a town of under 700 in Berkshire County, has 11,924 acres of land it can’t put on the tax property rolls because it’s state-owned, including the Savoy Mountain State Forest. The town gets close to $80,000 a year for the state-owned land, less than it would if the land were on the property rolls.
Yet Plymouth, a coastal town south of Boston, gets nearly nine times that amount for roughly the same amount of state-owned land. Plymouth gets more than $698,033 for 11,881 acres, which includes the Myles Standish State Forest.