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Chesterfield,
Massachusetts
2000
Population: 1,201
Area:
31.1
sq mi
Population
Density: 38.6
/ sq mi
Accessible
by: Route
143
Attractions:
Chesterfield
Gorge, Chesterfield State Forest, Chester State Wildlife Management
Area, Fisk Meadow State Wildlife Management Area
Chesterfield’s center is one of the best preserved of the Berkshire foothill towns. It’s lined with a series of Federal Period homes along its Main Road. During the 1760s, Chesterfield thrived largely as a producer of Merino wool, using the hills about it for grazing sheep.
A must for tourists, Chesterfield Gorge is both a historic
(see the stone abutments of bygone bridges from the
American Revolution) and a natural (a rare glacial carving out
of metamorphic bedrock) attraction.
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For
more information about Chesterfield see their
Commonwealth
Communities Page
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