Stockbridge, a lovely village located in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, is peacefully situated in a beautiful interval between the mountains and the Housatonic River. The town has grown from an Indian mission to a quiet village of wealth and gracious living to a resort town with the most famous Main Street in America as painted by Norman Rockwell.
Stockbridge is known for its beautiful natural vistas, for its small town ambience, its historic houses, and cultural attractions. Historic houses open to the public include the Merwin House, the Mission House and Naumkeag.
Cultural attractions are Chesterwood Museum and studio of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of "The Minute Man" and the Lincoln Memorial; the new Rockwell museum, the Berkshire Botanical Gardens and Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The oldest village improvement society in the United States, the Laurel Hill Association, was founded and still exists in Stockbridge. Today, in the face of rapid change and development, people look nostalgically to a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. Many have found that a unique core of integrity, characteristic of small towns, can still be found in Stockbridge.
