Galvin Road is the most westerly street in North Adams. Until the ancient iron-girder bridge was declared unsafe for vehicular traffic, Galvin Road was an important connecting link between…

Twin lions have guarded the entrance to the Spruces since the 1950s.

It was in 1894 that F.E. Rice, a native of Charlemont and a resident of Florida, came down from the mountain and formed a partnership with E.A. McMillian and began a shoebox manufacturing facility on…

Twenty year old Charles H. Cutting formed a partnership with J.W. Silsby resulting in a men’s wholesale-retail clothing store which would last for 89 years. The C.H. Cutting Company opened in a modest…

The Casino was once the largest bowling establishment in the city of North Adams.

It was during the middle decades of the past century when Ted Butterworth owned and operated the Olympian bowling alleys in the Dowlin Block on Main Street. This place was a large, dingy,…

The end of World War I did not come all at once; rather it occurred over a period of several days.  There had been false reports during the first week of November that the war was about to end as the…

The 1888 blizzard pelted North Adams and Berkshire County with snow for four days and caused widespread disturbance.

In March 1936, on the day of the flood that year, an event that caused substantial damage occurred on West Main Street near Richview Avenue at the same time that the Hoosic River was taking its toll…

During the last week of June--and extending into the first week in July 1938, North Adams was the scene of a spectacular event, the likes of which has not been seen before or since.  The Transcript,…