BHS Turning Points Exhibit
1 Wendell Ave
Pittsfield, MA 01201
USA
Berkshire Historical Society presents the history of Pittsfield divided into ten time periods . Each panel will be filled with historic images and explanatory text highlighting significant “Turning Points.” It will be a visual journey through the City’s history.
Ten turning points in Pittsfield history
1761 – Founding Pittsfield (Thomas Allen, Rev War, Shaker Village, Park Square elm tree)
1800 – Pittsfield Emerging (first mills-Schofield, agriculture fair-Watson)
1825 – Building Pittsfield (water, train, immigrants)
1850 – Fighting Pittsfield (Civil War, Melville and Moby-Dick)
1875 – Transforming Pittsfield (Stanley, Athenaeum, city and county seat)
1900 – Expanding Pittsfield (GE, Museum, immigrants, WWI)
1925 – Roaring Pittsfield (roaring 20s, depression and war effort)
1950 – Pittsfield Rising (postwar expansion, housing developments, school population)
1970 – Saving Pittsfield (Urban renewal, GE pulling out, BCC, North Street)
2000 – Reinventing Pittsfield (Colonial, Beacon, Park Square)