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8 unusual facts about Pittsfield


Another Animal

Another Animal is part of the stable of artists who have recorded at Rocking Horse Studio in Pittsfield, New Hampshire.

Oliver Edwards

On August 9, 1862, Edwards was promoted to major and recalled to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to assist in organizing the 37th Massachusetts Infantry.

Pittsfield Generating Facility

Pittsfield Generating Facility is a Natural Gas or oil fired station in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built and operated by Pittsfield Generating Company, LP (a subsidiary of Maxim Power.

Pittsfield, Maine

In 1815, the town was organized as the Plantation of Sebasticook, but was incorporated on June 18, 1819 as Warsaw after Warsaw, Poland.

Pittsfield, New Hampshire

The town claimed the Guinness World Record in July, 2001, as the place where the most number of people wore Groucho Marx glasses at the same time (522).

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman

He later returned to the ministry, however, as rector of St. Martin’s Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Winthrop M. Crane

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt.


Bernard Baran

Bernard Baran took a job as a teacher’s aide in 1983 at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) in his hometown of Pittsfield, the county seat of Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts.

Charles Power

Charles W. Power, American politician; mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Elley

Mildred Elley, private two-year college with campuses in Albany, New York and Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Evan Dobelle

Elected mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1973 and 1975, Dobelle was later Massachusetts State Commissioner of Environmental Management and Natural Resources.

Futures Collegiate Baseball League

The Pittsfield franchise was operated by majority owner Marvin Goldklang and the Goldklang Group, which owns and operates four other minor-league baseball teams.

Jacqueline Mars

Mars attended and graduated from the boarding school Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Paiement

Paiement, Nicolas Blanchard, Joe Jensen, Casey Borer, and the River Rats' radio color commentator, John Hennessy, were all taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with "serious" injuries.

Martin Dobelle

He returned to Pittsfield in 1965 and two years later was appointed medical examiner for Central Berkshire, a post he held until 1982.

Massachusetts Route 41

Route 41 ends just north of the Richmond-Pittsfield line at U.S. Route 20, just east of the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock and southwest of Pittsfield's airport and city center.

Pittsfield Township, Lorain County, Ohio

At the center of Pittsfield Township is located the intersection of State Routes 58 and 303.

Reading Red Sox

In 1965, Boston moved its AA affiliate to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the Cleveland Indians re-established a farm club in Reading, where the Indians had a successful affiliate from 1950-61.

Suncook River

Below the lakes, the river passes through the village of Center Barnstead and enters the town of Pittsfield, whose village is centered around a 19th century dam on the river.

WBEC

WBEC-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

WBRK

WBRK-FM, a radio station (101.7 FM) licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

WRRS

WRRS-LP, a low-power radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to serve Pittsfield, Massachusetts

WTBR

WTBR-FM, a radio station broadcasting in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States

WUPE

WBEC-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call signs WUPE-FM and WUPE from 1977 until 2006


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