BerkshiresMonterey, MA history, information, demographics
Site of some of the Berkshires' most splendid resources - Lakes Buel and Garfield, the Mill River, and Beartown State Forest, Monterey has been attracting artists and urban refugees since the early 1800s. People say that entering the town's commercial, political, and social hub - the Monterey General Store, is like a trip back to the 1780s.
Monterey, MA facts:
- Town Hall: Grange Bldg.,Main Rd.
- Phone: (413) 528-1443
- Population: 934
- Settled/Inc'd: 1739/1847
- Named for: see note
- Elevation: 1,200'
- Demographic data: state.ma.us/cc/monterey.html
- Townwebsite: monterey-ma.org/
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...once called "Green Woods"
"Monterey used to be called "Green Woods," an appropriate name. When the southern part of Tyringham became a separate town during the Mexican War, patriotic selectmen wished to name it in commemoration of General Zachary Taylor's battles in Mexico and Texas, but Palo Alto and Buena Vista were too foreigh-sounding. Monterey was musical and not too hard to pronounce, so Monterey it became." (The Berkshire Hills, by Federal Writers' Project, © 1939, Berkshire Hills Conference, Inc.)