Nestled in the Berskhire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, Lenox is a charming, genteel town with a long history. Largely uninhabited until the 18th century, it was first settled in 1750, when a couple from Connecticut moved here to establish an inn and a general store. By the 19th century, it had become a center of farming, textile mills, glassworks, quarrying, and was later transformed into an artists and writers colony by notable personalities such as Nathaniel Hawthorn and Henry Ward Beecher. During the period between 1880 and 1920, Lenox became a popular Gilded Age resort town for wealthy visitors from Boston and other nearby cities, who built mansions and cottages in town. Lenox remains a popular tourist destination, and is home to the Tanglewood Music Festival every summer and thousands of foliage-seeking tourists in the fall.
Nestled in the Berskhire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, Lenox is a charming, genteel town with a long history. Largely uninhabited until the 18th century, it was first settled in 1750, when a couple from Connecticut moved here to establish an inn and a general store. By the 19th century, it had become a center of farming, textile mills, glassworks, quarrying, and was later transformed into an artists' and writers' colony by notable personalities such as Nathaniel Hawthorn and Henry Ward Beecher. During the period between 1880 and 1920, Lenox became a popular Gilded Age resort town for wealthy visitors from Boston and other nearby cities, who built mansions and cottages in town. Lenox remains a popular tourist destination, and is home to the Tanglewood Music Festival every summer and thousands of foliage-seeking tourists in the fall.
