Bash Bish Falls - Mt. Washington

[KD Talbot]

Bash-Bish Falls is in the Mount Washington State Forest in Massachusetts. It is called Mount Washington State Forest because it is in the town of Mount Washington in the southwest corner of Massachusetts. Link:

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/mwas.htm

More specifically:

http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/bash.htm

It is not near Mount Washington, nor is it in New Hampshire. There is Mount Washington State Park at the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Two different places. Confusing,huh?

Also:


Robert Livingston, a Scot who had married into the wealthy Van Rennselear family, established Livingston Manor in the Hudson River Valley in 1682. He expanded his claims to cover a large portion of Southern Berkshire under the Patent of Westenhook of 1705. His holdings totalled over 175,000 acres from the Hudson Valley eastward. Thus, when the first English settlers arrived, they found six Dutch families living west of Sheffield, one of whom cultivated his land since 1692. Livingston charged many of the English settlers rent for use of lands that were granted as free towns by the Massachusetts Colonial Legislature. This disagreement resulted in the killing of William Race by a group of Livingston's agents in 1755. In an effort to gain legal right to the land, a syndicate of forty proprietors purchased a plantation on Taghconic Mountain (Mount Washington) in 1757. Livingston's agents retaliated by burning six farms. It took 17 years to resettle the area , and gain title to the land. It was finally incorporated as the Town of Mount Washington in 1779.

Historic Preservation Report

Anyway, the picture at the start of this thread is of the Crystal Cascade on Mount Washington and is mislabeled Bash- Bish Falls.

KDT