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Cummington,
Massachusetts
2000
Population: 978
Area:
23.1
sq mi
Population
Density: 42.4
/ sq mi
Accessible
by: Route
9, Route 112
Attractions:
Chesterfield
State Forest, Cummington Fair,
Deer Hill State Reservation, Paul Cuddy State Wildlife Management
Area, Bryant Homestead
Cummington is a town alive with the spirit of New England in the summer. Events like the Cummington Fair, which happens every August on the town’s fairgrounds and includes 4-H exhibition halls, a craft barn, a vaudeville state, an antique car parade, an oxen pull, not to mention a variety of carnival rides, games and food.
The town is home to the 19th century writer William Cullen Bryant, who was a long-time editor of The New York Evening Post, as well as an accomplished poet and journalist.
Also of note, the mineral known as “cummingtonite” was first
found in this area.
If you have any knowledge to share,
please email us.
For
more information about Cummington see their
Commonwealth
Communities Page
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