Massachusetts -- Mile-by-Mile

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=47 BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Massachusetts -- Mile-by-Mile</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#FFFF33" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone Trail"><B>Home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone TrailState by State"><B>The YT, state-by-state</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone TrailMassachusetts"><B>Return to </B></A><A HREF="id200.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Yellowstone TrailMassachusetts"><B>Massachusetts</B></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=433 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="06100c00egerdp.jpg"> <div> This is a list of towns along the Yellowstone Trail in Massachusetts.  They are arranged from west to east.  Mileages, if any, are from Minneapolis as recorded in the 1920's and are listed here as an approximate indication of modern distances.  Added to this list will be information about historic buildings, bridges, and sites. [The Mile-by-Mile pages are just being developed (Spring 2005) and will contain minimal information for some time.]</div> <bR> <div> NEW YORK STATE LINE</div> <div> 1468     Pittsfield</div> <div>           Hancock Shaker Village </div> <div> 20 historic buildings left by the last residents in 1959.  See <A HREF="http://www.hancockshakervillage.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hancockshakervillage.org">www.hancockshakervillage.org</A></div> <div> That Hancock village just outside Pittsfield Mass. is quite a visit, but the original Shaker commune is just across the line in NY, just off Route 20, and is well worth a visit too. It is on Mountain Road on the south side of 20; there is a sign at the juncture of Mountain Road and 20 noting that the Darrow School and the Mount Lebanon Shaker site are nearby.   </div> <div> Mount Lebanon</div> <div>    The Darrow School and the Shaker site overlap – the school has been renting space at the site since the 1920s. Thus the former worship center is now the school library and so on. While the school uses many of the buildings, many are not and are preserved as historic sites. The income from the rental helps to maintain the buildings, and the school’s use of certain buildings is done carefully and respectfully. </div> <div>    Driving the short distance from 20 down Mountain Road the first thing one sees is the stone front of a barn foundation, the upper portion of which no longer exists. Then beyond one sees the beginnings of a collection of large frame buildings of various sorts, the mute survivors of a once thriving community. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Charlie C</FONT></div> <div>           Lenox</div> <div>           Lee</div> <div>           West Becker</div> <div>           Chester</div> <div>           Russell</div> <div>           Woronoco</div> <div>           Westfield</div> <div>           West Springfield</div> <div> 1525  Springfield</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" >                       </FONT>see  <A HREF="http://www.masslive.com/visitorsguide/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.masslive.com/visitorsguide/">http://www.masslive.com/visitorsguide/</A></div> <div>           Indian Orchard (just E. of Springfield)</div> <div>           Palmer</div> <div>           Warren</div> <div>           Brookfield</div> <div>           Spencer</div> <div>           Tafts Corner</div> <div>           Leicester</div> <div> 1576     Worcester</div> <div> <U>June 2005 Koerner note</U>:  Worcester, MA is working on plans to remove the failed enclosed mall that severed the YT routing on Front St through their downtown area many years ago. Among all of the new building and other work, this plan will restore the street grid that was scraped off to build the mall, including Front St, as part of the project. Although not a noticed part of this project, it will restore a through roadway on the riginal YT routing in that area.   See: <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>http://www.newcitysquare.com</U></FONT> for more details. This website is very new, being put up within the past week or so, and the project appears to have strong public support.</div> <bR> <div>           Shrewsbury</div> <div>           Northboro</div> <div>           Marlboro</div> <div>           Sudbury</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >Longfellow's Wayside Inn is a fabulous restaurant/inn for an historic experience.  It was originally known as Howe's Tavern from 1716 to 1861. The first innkeeper, David Howe, operated what was then called a "hous of entertainment" along the old Boston Post Road in the same spot the Wayside Inn stands today.   </FONT>See <A HREF="http://www.wayside.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wayside.org/">www.wayside.org/</A></div> <div>           East Sudbury</div> <div>           Wayland</div> <div>           Weston</div> <div> 1620     Boston</div> <div>           Quincy</div> <div>           Weymouth ??</div> <div>           Assinippi</div> <div>           Hanover</div> <div>           North Pembroke</div> <div>           Kingston</div> <div> 1663     Plymouth</div> <div> EASTERN TERMINOUS OF THE YELLOWSTONE TRAIL</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>