History of Town of Lanesborough

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To avoid delaying what is now ready till all the fragments can be gathered together, the first one hundred and fifty pages are now issued. Part Second will probably appear in the course of the win ter, and will include the remainder of the Cemetery inscriptions, a small portion of which appear in this volume, also History of the Churches, and sketches of distinguished residents such as Henry Shaw, Josh Billings, Governor Briggs and others, accounts of early Masonry in Lanesboro, some unpublished writings of Josh Billings, an account of the Old Home Week Celebration of 1902, and a large number of extracts from old newspapers referring to the town. Mention should be made of the indebtedness of the author to Rev. A. B. Whipple for his valuable paper on Balance Rock, and to W. H. Phillips for permission to use portions of the Berkshire Hills Monthly referring to Lanesborough.