Florence Sullivan was once the largest landowner in the city, owning much of North Adams' downtown at the time of her death.

Self-taught, North Adams native Frank Millard won a silver medal in wrestling at the 1936 Berlin, Germany Olympics.

There may have been other families in North Adams who had five sons in the military, but the Sacco family was the only one who had six sons serving at the same time during World War II. Anthony,…

Clinton Quackenbush Richmond, a dynamic businessman, civic leader, and transportation pioneer, helped electrify early street railways and shape North Adams, Massachusetts. From journalism to politics,…

On September 21 and September 22, 1938, New England experienced a devastating category-5 hurricane which caused massive damage and incurred many hundreds of casualties (both fatalities and injuries).…

The flood of 1927 was the first of four majors floods that occurred in North Adams from 1927-1949