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North Adams is governed by the mayor-council form of government (list of mayors of North Adams, Massachusetts). The city has its own services, including police, fire and public works. The city's public library is the largest in northern Berkshire County and has access to the regional library networks.
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts.It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the United States.
The city of North Adams was relatively isolated in the early 19th century, separated from the rest of Massachusetts to the east by Hoosac Mountain, and on the west by the Taconic Mountains. With the advent of the railroad in the late 1820s, proposals were developed for rail connections to other parts of Massachusetts and eastern New York.
The historic district is basically linear in character, extending along Massachusetts Avenue west of downtown North Adams and north of the Hoosic River. It extends along the north side between Church Hill Road and Wood Street, and on the south side east from Ashton Avenue, to about midway between Wood and Church Hill.
The Freeman's Grove neighborhood is located north of downtown North Adams, on the hills rising north of the east-west flowing North Branch Hoosic River.. Named after the Freeman Grove Manufacturing Company, the neighborhood combined raw houses built for the company’s workers aside spacious Victorian homes for the upper classes The housing stock in the district includes single- and multiple ...
Fort Massachusetts was the westernmost in a line of forts built by British colonists to protect the northern border of Massachusetts from French and Indian forces in 1745. It was constructed along the banks of the Hoosac River in what is currently North Adams, Massachusetts by a company of Massachusetts militiamen led by Captain Ephraim Williams.