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The Sheffield Resolves, or Sheffield Declaration, was an early Colonial American petition against British rule and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield on January 12, 1773, and printed in The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal on February 18, 1773.
The Colonel John Ashley House is a historic house museum at 117 Cooper Hill Road in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Built in 1735 by a prominent local leader, it is one of the oldest houses in southern Berkshire County. The museum is owned and operated by The Trustees of Reservations, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
The Sheffield Center Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Sheffield, Massachusetts. The village extends linearly along United States Route 7, roughly between Maple Avenue and Berkshire School Road, and includes the town's major civic and religious buildings. The area's principal period of development was between 1760 and ...
The Sheffield Plain Historic District encompasses the original 18th-century village center of Sheffield, Massachusetts, United States. The linear district extends southward about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the junction of United States Route 7 and Cook Road, where the original town common is located. The district was primarily developed in the ...
Sheffield: Historic house museum operated by The Trustees of Reservations. The 1773 Sheffield Declaration was drafted in the house. In 1781 Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman won her freedom in a case which led to the end of slavery in Massachusetts 8: P. J. Barrett Block: P. J. Barrett Block: April 1, 1982 : 70-76 Park St.
The Old Covered Bridge is located just east of the village of Sheffield Plain, spanning the Housatonic River at the ends of Covered Bridge Lane. The bridge is approached from the west by a causeway extending all the way to United States Route 7, and from the east by a causeway about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long, both crossing the river's flood plain.
A Berkshire County man walked into the Massachusetts lottery office on Monday with a $1 million winning ticket. $1 million lottery ticket could buy me a boat, Berkshire County winner says Skip to ...
The Fellows Farmstead is located in a rural setting of southwestern Sheffield, on the east side of Barnum Road north of Foley Road. The property is 125 acres (51 ha) in size, a combination of open fields and woodlands. The main house is a single-pile 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded ...