Great Barrington Massachusetts .. The Chipping Norton of New England .. Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on October 10, 2020, 4:26 am, in reply to "Dr John Campbell: Great Barrington Declaration - an experiment with billions of lives at stake."
"With the arrival of the railroad in the late 19th century, Great Barrington developed as a Gilded Age resort community for those seeking relief from the heat and pollution of cities. Wealthy families built grand homes called Berkshire Cottages here, as others would in Lenox and Stockbridge. Among the earliest estates was one built by New York City banker, industrialist and art patron David Leavitt, who built an elaborate 300-acre (1.2 km2) estate, and was soon followed by those of his sons nearby.[7][8] Leavitt was instrumental in the development of the local Housatonic Railroad, serving as its president. Later estates included Searles Castle, commissioned in 1888 by the widow of Mark Hopkins together with her second husband, Edward Francis Searles, and "Brookside", built for William Hall Walker. In 1895, Colonel William L. Brown, part owner of the New York Daily News, presented Great Barrington with a statue of a newsboy, now a landmark on the western edge of town.[9]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington,_Massachusetts - Sounds nice. Nice safe place for psychopaths to over-winter and cull the riff raff, I'd say.
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