Category:Blackinton, Massachusetts

Blackinton, Massachusetts grew up around the mills of the Blackinton Company, founded on the north bank of the Hoosic River in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White. It would became one of the largest manufacturers of woolen goods in Western Massachusetts. By the early 1900s the neighborhood was a self-contained community, with its own school, jail, stores, post office, library and fire department, and the people there considered themselves be residents of "Blackinton", not North Adams. The community – which historically had been disputed between North Adams and Williamstown – had a station on the Boston & Maine, as well as bus service to North Adams. The mill closed in 1950. (Source: Oehler, Kay; Sheppard, Stephen C.; Benjamin, Blair and Li, Lily. "Shifting Sands in Changing Communities: The Neighborhoods, Social Services, and Cultural Organizations of North Adams, Massachusetts" and "Sanford Blackinton")

Blackinton Historic District 

historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts
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Instance of	historic district
Location	North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Heritage designation	National Register of Historic Places listed place (North Adams MRA, A, B, C, NRHP district, Blackinton Historic District, 1985–)
42° 41′ 26″ N, 73° 06′ 08″ W
Authority file  Q4923036 BabelNet ID: 01125591n NRHP reference number: 85003384 Reasonator Scholia Wikidocumentaries PetScan statistics WikiMap Locator tool KML file WikiShootMe OpenStreetMap Search depicted