Hiking the AT in Massachusetts is a great experience. I shared some photos, so how about historic sites that were found along the trail prior to 1990. Over the next few blogs, I will share an edited version of a cultural resource inventory. All the information is documented in the bibliography below.
Why is this important?
Trail Significance
The Trail corridor is one of the nation’s most significant cultural landscapes, revealing the history of human use and settlement along the Appalachian Mountain range and the resulting distinct regional traditions. Visitors to the Trail have the unique opportunity to interact with the communities and resources representing these diverse eras in U.S. history and prehistory. (page 5).
National Park Service. (2015). Foundation Document, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, USDI, NPS.
Now a bib:
Adkins, L. (2016). Images of America: Along the Appalachian Trail, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Arcadia.
Appalachian Trail Conservancy. (1939). Guide to the Appalachian Trail in New England. Publication no. 13. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Barnes and Farnham. (1904). Atlas of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Barnes and Farnham.
Bryan, C. (1887). The Book of the Berkshire describing and illustration its hills and homes and telling where they are, what they are and why they are destined to become the most charming and desirable summer homes in America for the season of 1887. Clark W. Bryan & Co. Publishers.
Berkshire Hills Conference. (1939). The Berkshire Hills, Members of the Federal Writers'
Project of the Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Chew, V. C. (1988). Underfoot: A Geologic Guide to the Appalachian Trail. Appalachian Trail Conference.
Colwell, R., Avery, S., Berger, J., Davis, G., Hamilton, H., Lovejoy, T., Malcom, S., et al. (2014). Revisiting Leopold: Resource Stewardship in the National Parks. National Parks Advisory Board, 20(2), 15-24.
Crowley & Lunt (1923). South Berkshire Directory 1923-25. Crowley and Lunt.
Dale, T. (1923). The Lime Belt of Massachusetts. USDI-USGS Bulletin 744. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Eckel, E. (1922). Cements, Limes and Plasters: their Materials, Manufacture and
Properties. John Wiley and Sons.
Egremont Historical Commission. (2017). Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20160702114140/https://egremonthistory.org/our-town-history/egremonts-historic-citizens/
Emerson, B. K. (1917). Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Department of the Interior Bulletin No. 597. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Emley, W. (1913). Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, No. 16 Manufacture of lime. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Hitchcock, E. (1838). Report on the Re-Examination of the Economical Geology of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth. (retrieved from https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/750006 on 4 February 2019.
Hockensmith, C. (1996). Archaeological Investigations at the Rudd Lime Kilns, Livingston County, Kentucky. Ohio Valley Historical Archaeology, 11, 115-124.
Holland, J. (1855). History of Western Massachusetts. Samuel Bowles and Co.
Lacy, D. & Roenke, K. (1998). Walking through time: heritage resources within the Appalachian Trail corridor. In: H. Vogelsong, (Ed.) Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1997 April 6 - 9; Bolton Landing, NY. (pp. 171-173). Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-241. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
Leonard, R. (1979). Protecting the Long Trail Resource: A Problem Analysis in Burch Jr, W. R. Long distance trails. The Appalachian trail as a guide to future research and management needs. Long distance trails. Symposium on the Appalachian Trail, 11-13 October, 1977. Yale University.
Leung Y. F., Spenceley A., Hvenegaard G. & Buckley R. (2018). Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Sustainability. IUCN.
MacKaye, B. (1921). An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning. American Institute of Architects. 9(10), 325-330.
National Park Service. (1991). “Deed for Property: APPA14/1_249-67.” USDI-NPS.
National Park Service. (2015). Foundation Document, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, USDI, NPS. Retrieved from https://www.nps.gov/appa/getinvolved/upload/APPA-Foundation-Document-2015.pdf
The National Trail Systems Act (NTSA P.L. 90-543) https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-82/pdf/STATUTE-82-Pg919.pdf
New England Trail Conference. (1933). Guide to the Appalachian Trail in New England. NETC.
Palmer, C. (1900). Berkshire County, Its Past History and Achievements. Charles L. Palmer.
Palmer, M. & Orange, H. (2016). The archaeology of industry; people and places. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 50(1), pp.73-91.
Pease, C.H. (1898). Scrap Book of North Canaan. C.H. Pease.
Preiss, L. (1976). Sheffield: Frontier Town. Excelsior.
Rolando, V. (1994). The Industrial Archaeology Study of Vermont: 1978-1993. The Journal of Vermont Archaeology, 1, 141-152.
Sanborn Maps. (1912, 1923). Sanborn Maps for Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. (Retrieved from http://sanborn.umi.com/).
Scott, F. (1904). Sheffield in the Berkshires. French.
Stone. (1903). Limes and Cements. Stone, May 1903, 26(1), 74.
Waterman, L., & Waterman, G. (2019). Forest and crag: a history of hiking, trail blazing, and adventure in the Northeast Mountains. SUNY Press.
(note, many of the older documents are found online, either from a library or Archive.org)
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