Our firm has been providing professional, caring funeral service to Chatham and the surrounding areas since 1893. We proudly represent a trusted name in our community. We continually strive to bring information needed to make good decisions to...
Funeral Homes in Sheffield, MA
Although our name, Burnett & White Funeral Homes, is new, we have owned and operated the Burnett, Rockefeller & Hand Funeral Home in Red Hook and the White Funeral Home in Rhinebeck as independently owned family businesses for more than 25 years....
The first Millspaugh Funeral Home was founded at 40 Summit Avenue in 1926 by the late Harry and Lucy Tesch Millspaugh. In 1929, they moved to 175 Grandview Avenue and in 1942 to 257 Main Street. Their son, Henry, and grandson, Harry, began...
Many changes have happened since 1937. Ed moved his business in Pittsfield to Bradford Street and added a branch in Cheshire in 1964, the same year his sons Dave and Ed Jr. joined the business. Ed Senior's untimely death in 1968 did not change...
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Facts about the city
Sheffield is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,257 at the 2010 census. Sheffield is home to Berkshire School, a private preparatory school. The former resort town includes the village of Ashley Falls, and is bordered by various other towns and villages, such as Egremont and Great Barrington.
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History
The lower township of Housatonic (as Outhotonnook would be corrupted) was first settled by Matthew Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts who arrived in 1725. Located on the fertile floodplain of the Housatonic River valley, the principal industry was agriculture. The resort town includes the village of Ashley Falls.
Originally called Outhotonnook, meaning "over the mountain," the land was purchased on April 25, 1724 from Chief Konkapot and 20 other Stockbridge, Massachusetts Mahican Indigenous peoples of the Americas Its price was 460 pound (currency) 3 barrels of cider and 30 quarts of rum. But New York State York concurrently claimed west of the Housatonic River under the Westenhook Patent, dated July 11, 1705, and insisted that Province of Massachusetts Bay cease encroachment. Sheffield was also the site of the bloodiest (and last) battle on February 27, 1787, during Shays' Rebellion.
The official website for the city of Sheffield is http://www.sheffieldma.gov.
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