Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
4 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 11 buildings. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1888 on, and the census since 1790.
Tyringham dates its founding to 1735 (Wikidata). It appears in the first U.S. census, 1790.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tyringham’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1790 and 1960, then more than doubled.
19 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tyringham’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Tyringham. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Tyringham.
From Wikipedia’s history of Tyringham.
Founded as Housatonic Township Number 1, the land which became Tyringham and Monterey was first settled in 1735. Tyringham was established in 1739. The two main villages were set up along two waterways, Hop Brook to the north and the Konkapot River to the south.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Tyringham, cut from the printed page as they were published.
width, and were granted with the condition that the town should be at no expense. The road from Stockbridge, through the yallejto the Yorker place, and thence oyer Blue Hill to Tyringham, was a county road before 1792 ; and that from the top of Three Mile Hill, northerly, was established by the town, m 1792, with a width of two rods. This afterwards — 1803 to 1828 — formed part of a turnpike leading from Stock-
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ing that period was included in and formed a part of the town of Sheffield. The adjoining towns on the north, are Alford, West Stockbridge, Stockbridge and Lee, on the east, Tyringham, Monterey and New Marlboro, on the south New Marlboro, Sheffield and Egremont, on the west Egremont and Alford. The extreme western limits of the town approach within about three miles of the neighbormg state of New York, and the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archivePlan of Tyringham, surveyor's name not given, dated 1830 - DPLA - 2953b4415cd62fef99195e2…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveMansell Richard James flight map
In the archiveRoads and Buildings Town of Tyringham - DPLA - 70ea354b7718f99d3201ecfc5a3cf96e
In the archiveSantarella Estate4 decades in the archive, from the 1830s to the 1980s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tyringham’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Tyringham had its own post office from 1820 to 1976.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1735, according to Wikidata. Tyringham’s post office opened in 1820, and the first U.S. census counted 1,397 people here in 1790.
4 listings: 3 buildings and 1 historic district, the Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District, with 11 contributing buildings. 15 historic buildings in all.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (11), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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