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	Hoosac Tunnel - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile-long railroad tunnel through the Hoosac Range, which is an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.
		The tunnel project was originally proposed in 1819 as a canal to connect Boston to Upstate New York via the Deerfield River on the east of the Hoosac Range and the Hoosic River on the west.
		One of the many engineering challenges posed by the project was lining up the four tunnels that were being dug: the east and west portal tunnels, and the two tunnels dug outward from the central shaft.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hoosac_Tunnel (1056 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hoosac Tunnel
		The Hoosac Tunnel is a 4.75-mile-long railroad tunnel through the Hoosac Range, which is an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.
		The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont.
		'Hoosac' is an Algonquian word meaning 'place of stones.' The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hoosac-Tunnel (1432 words)

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		The rugged main range includes the inactive volcano Tajumulco, which is the highest point in Central America (13,816 ft/4,211 m).
		The range is flanked on the Pacific side by a string of volcanoes (some active), such as Tac...
		The wavelength range for X rays is from about 10-8 m to about 10-11 m, or from less than a billionth of an inch to less than a trillionth of an inch; the corresponding frequency range is fro...
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	Hoosac Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile-long (7.64 km) railroad tunnel through the Hoosac Range, which is an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.
		The Western Railroad, which ran a southern route through Springfield and Pittsfield, opposed the Hoosac Tunnel and its northern route through the state.
		The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was organized in 1877 to build from near the Massachusetts/Vermont border, where state ownership ended, parallel to the Troy and Boston Railroad to near Johnsonville, New York and then west via Schenectady to Rotterdam Junction on what became the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway in 1880.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoosac_Tunnel (1567 words)

	Hoosac Lake
		The bedrock of the lowland areas, and the lake bottom and surrounding valley floor, are primarily a weak carbonate-rich rock type that contributes to the high buffering capacity and eutrophication vulnerability of the Lake.
		Though the waters of the southern two basins of Hoosac Lake are severely choked with weeds, many species of migratory birds, including Canada geese, mallards, and wood ducks stop at the Lake and the extensive surrounding wetland areas during their migrations (Lake District Management Plan, 21).
		The Hoosac Lake Protection/Recreation District was incorporated in 1994 under state law, with the mission of restoring and managing the North Basin of Hoosac Lake.
	www.williams.edu /CES/mattcole/resources/onlinepaperhtml/hoosaclake.html (8514 words)

	Hoosac Roads -- The Turnpikes of New England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Hoosac Mountain Turnpike Corporation was the lone product of the year 1827, being incorporated on the twenty-third of February.
		The plan is a good map of the roads existing at that time in the region to be traversed, and the "contemplated turnpike" is shown thereon by a single line, drawn with a ruler from India Point to the line of Barrington, Rhode Island, in a direct aim for Bristol.
		This Hoosac company secured a charter closely following the lines of the one granted for a railroad to the Boston, Providence, and Taunton Railroad Corporation March 12, 1830, but apparently the incorporators were faint-hearted on the railroad question and had an alternative form of construction allowed under which they could build an old-fashioned turnpike.
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	AllRefer.com - Hoosac Range, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Hoosac Range[hOO´suk] Pronunciation Key, southern continuation of the Green Mts., NW Mass.
		The Hoosac railroad tunnel, c.5 mi (8 km) long, built from 1852 to 1873, at the cost of nearly 200 lives, cuts beneath the range from east to west.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Hoosac Range
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	THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.—Scribner's—December, 1870 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Over the tops of the other range of hills which are known as the Hoosac range, the zig-zag line of Berkshire county runs.
		The Hoosac river, which empties into the Hudson a little above Troy, has cut the Taghkanics in twain for him, and a most beautiful route is open to the village of North Adams, where the west side of the Hoosac mountain rises before him more abrupt and lofty than the eastern side.
		But for this Hoosac mountain, the route, as the Commissioners say, is, considering the nature of the country between the Connecticut and the Hudson, remarkably feasible.
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	bellairsia : index
		Located in picturesque bluff country on the Mississippi River, Hoosac, Minnesota is the home of Anthony Monday and Myra Eells.
		Hoosac is based somewhat on Winona, Minnesota, where Bellairs lived (1963-1965) while teaching at the now-defunct College of Saint Teresa.
		Like Hoosac, the city of Winona lies atop a sand bar formed between two channels, the main channel of the Mississippi and Lake Winona, a secondary channel.
	www.bellairsia.com /h/h_hoosac_mn.html (487 words)

	Chapter 30
		At its doors the north and east branches of the Hoosac River unite to form the main stream.
		There are really two mountains or detached peaks, one, the loftiest, on the Hoosac side, and the other a very respectable mountain warding the Deerfield Valley; between the two is a wide plateau seamed by water-courses and dotted by mountain farms.
		The flames at once leaped to the shaft, seizing on everything combustible, and, in a few moments, the burning timbers, with tons of steel drills and shaft machinery, were precipitated to the bottom, killing thirteen unfortunates who were at work there.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/county/plymouth/books/olde/set3/chap30.htm (1690 words)

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		The town shows here to good advantage; the Hoosac Range is grandly outlined on the western horizon, and the meadows above the village, through which the winding path of the little river is marked by the willows, are always delightfully fresh and green.
		On the east the Hoosac range stretches away toward the north as far as the eye can see: from the hills of Savoy behind us to the Page 135 northern horizon in Readsboro, there must be nearly twenty miles of this straight unbroken mountain chain, whose eastern slope is in full view.
		Between these two ranges the valley stretches away narrowing toward its northern extremity till it is lost in the blue distance between the hills.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/fthtth04.html (10553 words)

	Savoy Mountain State Forest
		The Hoosac Range is an extension of the Green Mountains of Vermont, and is the first mountain barrier encountered west of the Connecticut River Valley.
		The mid-1800's brought construction of the Hoosac Tunnel for railroad transportation and a population boom for the towns of Florida and Savoy.
		When the tunnel was completed, the railway workers left, and many of the town's young people left the area to work in the woolen mills in the larger towns of Adams and North Adams, or to join the land rush to the west.
	www.mass.gov /dcr/parks/western/svym.htm (424 words)

	Lenox Massachusetts, 1890
		Roaring Brook comes down from the Hoosac range, which occupies the town of Washington on the east.
		At the middle of the western line rises Lenox Mountain, a peak of the Taconic range, which borders the town on the west, and covers the southwest with its broad hills.
		At the eastern base of Lenox Mountain is a wild and deep gorge called "The Gulf." The principal rock is Levis limestone, Lauzon schist and the Potsdam group.
	capecodhistory.us /Mass1890/Lenox1890.htm (771 words)

	Hoosac Range - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hoosac Range - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Hoosac Range is a Western Massachusetts mountain range which is part of the Appalachian Mountains and an extension of the Vermont Green Mountains.
		The 4.75 mile Hoosac Tunnel passes through the range.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hoosac_Range (96 words)

	Taconic Range -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		To the north, and east of the Hoosic River, is the Hoosac Range, a southern stub...
		The highest mountain range within the Arctic Circle is the Brooks Range, the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in northern Alaska.
		This region encompasses the coast of the Pacific Ocean and ranges from tropical islands to the freezing temperatures.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9380102 (858 words)

	Adams, Massachusetts
		Visit the Mohawk Trail in western MA Adams was incorporated in 1778 and is located along the banks of the Hoosac River.
		To the east is the Hoosac Mountain Range and Mt. Greylock, the highest point in Massachusetts at 3,491 feet, stands proudly to the west.
		Its streets are lined with the remainders of huge 19th century textile mills that brought prosperity to the town: the factories, smoke stacks, mill houses, pleasant neighborhoods,churches and their steeples.
	www.mohawktrail.com /html/body_adams.html (343 words)

	Valley Advocate: Wind, Power and Wilderness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Critics of the Hoosac Wind project, such as Eleanor Tillinghast of Green Berkshires, a non-profit land preservation group in Great Barrington, argue that wind power is being artificially propped up with incentives and subsidies.
		Moreover, in the case of the Hoosac Wind project, she fears that too many otherwise environmentally conscious people have been taken in by the mystique of wind power, too dazzled by the promise of renewable energy to bother challenging this project as they would any other form of industrial development in the mountains.
		Tillinghast and her group have criticized the Hoosac Wind project mainly from two perspectives, one of which may matter more to ratepayers and taxpayers than environmentalists, while the other may matter a great deal to environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts but fail to impress the average ratepayer.
	valleyadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:103188 (3910 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hoosac Wind spokesman Sam Bittman said that enXco, the California-based developer of the $40 million project, has been working with the state on aviary studies.
		With that in mind, a technical advisory group consisting of state officials, Hoosac Wind representatives and bird experts has overseen migration and habitat studies on birds and likely will conduct a radar study on bats next spring, Bittman said.
		EnXco aims to build 11 turbines on the Hoosac Range in Florida and nine on Crum Hill in Monroe.
	www.berkshireeagle.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2915275 (655 words)

	Mohawk Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mohawk Trail began as an Native American trade route which connected Atlantic tribes with tribes in Upstate New York and beyond.
		It followed the Millers River, Deerfield River and crossed the Hoosac Range.
		Today the Mohawk Trail is part of Massachusetts Route 2, which was created as one of United State's first scenic highways.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohawk_Trail (106 words)

	Digital Collection - Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
		Elisha Hawley, a commander at Fort Adams in Massachusetts, probably surveyed a road built in 1753 that connected the fort with the Hudson River in New York.
		At the same time, they could celebrate the industrial and technological achievements of the period, including the road they traveled on and the automobiles in which they traveled.
		This part of the Trail passes over the Hoosac Tunnel, an engineering marvel of the period.
	www.memorialhall.mass.edu /collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=4522 (176 words)

	History of the Mohawk Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We learn, that as spring opened, John Perry, one of the carpenters of the Fort, evidently not expecting any disturbance, built the first house to be erected along the line of the Trail between Charlemont and Pownal.
		The French report of this says: "Barns, mills, churches and tanneries, were destroyed and the harvest laid waste for a distance of thirty or forty miles." This destruction was all within present New York boundaries.
		While the captives were making their way along our trail westward, a large party of the attacking Indians at the Fort were making their way over it eastward, crossing the Hoosac range to the Deerfield valley.
	www.eberkshires.com /mohawktrail/history/history3.html (1311 words)

	Tilting at windmills - iBerkshires.com - Home
		Seven of the Hoosac turbines will be among the 10 highest points in the state.
		The mountain range is a major migratory route for hawks, golden eagles and bald eagles.
		Wind turbines are planned for Brodie Mountain and proposed for Berlin and Lenox Mountains and the Hoosac range south of Enxco’s project.
	www.iberkshires.com /story.php?story_id=16268 (1314 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The state issued the permit with the condition that experts study bird and bat populations before construction begins on Bakke Mountain in Florida and Crum Hill in Monroe, she said.
		EnXco seeks to construct 11 wind turbines on the Hoosac Range and nine on Crum Hill.
		Since then, she said, a technical advisory group consisting of state officials, Hoosac Wind representatives, conservationists and bird experts has overseen migration and habitat studies on such birds as raptors and songbirds.
	www.berkshireeagle.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2904677 (769 words)

	Description of Adams Ma
		In the 18th century, the Society of Friends settled the wilderness of the Hoosac River Valley and created the first community that became Adams.
		Located between Mt. Greylock and the Hoosac Mountain Range, the town grew from a small farming community to a prosperous industrial town.
		Today, visitors are reminded of the town's history while viewing the monuments to suffragette Susan B. Anthony and President William McKinley, a frequent visitor whose economic policies benefited the town.
	www.mass.info /adams.ma/description.htm (220 words)

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	Mohawk Trail - Natural Bridge
		The slow process of mountain building buckled, folded and lifted the earth's crust, forming mountain ranges.
		The Taconic mountains to the west and the Hoosac range to the east originally reached heights of 14,00020,000 feet.
		The brook flowing under the Natural Bridge bears his name - Hudson Brook; doubtless the Mohawk Indians who traveled through this part of the Hoosac range long before the arrival of white settlers had their own name for the wondrous bridge and its surroundings.
	www.berkshireweb.com /mohawktrail/natbridge.html (638 words)

	North Adams, MA 01247 :: berkshirelinks.com homepage with town hall contacts, summary history, and useful links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Also the site of the newly re-named Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams is poised to move into the vanguard as the cultural tourism-driven Berkshires enters the 21st century.
		The original towns in the area, predecessors of Adams, North Adams and Williamstown, were called East and West Hoosick, East and West Hoosuck, and East and West Hoosac, apparently depending on the idiosyncracies of eighteenth century spelling.
		It is all very confusing to anyone wishing to spell Hoosic, for to be certain one must know whether the reference is to a mountain, a river, or a town.
	berkshirelinks.com /north_adams.php (230 words)

	ADAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It includes a portion of the valley of the Hoosac river, extending to the Hoosac Range on the E., and on the W. to Mt. Williams (3040 ft.), and Grey'lock Mountain (3535 ft), partly in Williamstown, and the highest point in the state.
		The valley portion is level and contains several settlement centres, the largest of which, a busy industrial village (manufactures of cotton and paper), bears the same name as the township, and is on a branch of the Boston and Albany railroad.
		The village is the nearest station to Greylock, which can be easily ascended, and affords fine views of the Hoosac and Housatonic valleys, the Berkshire Hills and the Green Mountains; the mountain has been a state timber reservation since 1898.
	simplestartpage.com /2301_ADAMS.HTML (321 words)

	About Stockbridge, MA
		Other less well-defined attributes of Stockbridge, such as the natural beauty of the countryside, including a large lake, drew a type of resident that made the town a mecca for men and women of cultural distinction, who shaped its character.
		When the first Englishmen left Westfield about 1725 to cross the Hoosac Range and settle in the intervale bounded on the west by the Taconic Range, they found about fifty families of Housatonic, or River, Indians of the Mahican tribe, a branch of the Algonquians.
		These Native Americans had come from the Hudson Valley and were remnants of a once-proud nation of about 4,000 persons living on the west bank of the Hudson River.
	www.townofstockbridge.com /Public_Documents/StockbridgeMA_WebDocs/about (1919 words)

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