North Cemetery

North Cemetery is a cemetery in Town of Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts. North Cemetery is situated nearby to the locality Hancock Shaker Village, as well as near the peak Shaker Mountain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shaker Mountain.

Shaker Mountain

Peak

Shaker Mountain, 1,835 feet, is a prominent peak in the Taconic Mountains of western Massachusetts. The mountain is located in Pittsfield State Forest and is named after the nearby Hancock Shaker Village, a former Shaker religious colony and now a historic site. Shaker Mountain is situated 2 miles north of North Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hancock Shaker Village and Richmond.

Hancock Shaker Village

Locality

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Hancock Shaker Village is a former Shaker commune in Hancock and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It emerged in the towns of Hancock, Pittsfield, and Richmond in the 1780s, organized in 1790, and was active until 1960.

Richmond

Hamlet

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Richmond is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,407 at the 2020 census. Richmond is situated 3½ miles southwest of North Cemetery.

New Lebanon

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New Lebanon is in Columbia County, New York, on the border with the Berkshire County, Massachusetts. New Lebanon was the main spiritual home of the Shakers, a Christian sect who practice a celibate and communal lifestyle, pacifism, uniform charismatic worship, and equality of the sexes.

North Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Category: burial
Location: Town of Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.41555° or 42° 24′ 56″ north

Longitude

-73.33743° or 73° 20′ 15″ west

Elevation

1,188 feet (362 metres)

Open location code

87J8CM87+62

OpenStreetMap ID

way 858351964

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

GeoNames ID

4945566

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