From the first recorded instance in 1785 with Parker’s flood and throughout the next 165 years, the Hoosic River had multiple floods that devastated parts of the city of North Adams. In 1950, however,…

Anna Helen Croft McCuen was a woman born in North Adams in 1889, where she grew up and then studied at the North Adams Normal School to be a special class teacher, teaching first at Brayton School…

From the early 1970’s through the 1990’s, the Yahoo Festival was a music and sports festival held at Windsor Lake in North Adams. It was hosted by the then named North Adams State College by the…

The first Episcopal Service held in North Adams was in June of 1855. Using the Methodist Church, the Universalist Church, and Thayer’s Harmony Hall for the various locations, the early community was…

Sarah T. Haskins is a prolific figure in the history of North Adams. She was a teacher and a principal, who, shortly before her death, had the Sarah T. Haskins school named after her, because of the…

It was the Fall of 1997, and North Adams State College President Thomas Aceto was looking to improve the school’s popularity, escape the party school scene, enhance the school’s academic reputation,…

Jack's Hot Dog Stand has been in the same location for over a 100 years and continues today to be one of the city's most iconic locales.

Beginning in the 1960s, the North Adams State College Pub was a center of student social activity for the next three decades. As times changed, however, the Pub was phased out in the early 1990s as…

Giles Tinker, though not a native to North Adams, spent most of his life there, and greatly added to the fabric of the community in terms of his industrial, religious, and social contributions.

A striking building that housed a thriving congregation in the twentieth century is now an art gallery and meditation space.