Talk a walk in the steps of the early residents of Township #1 Each year, the Bidwell House Museum is excited to participate in the Housatonic Heritage Walk series that takes place throughout the Berkshires and northern Connecticut. This year the Museum will be offering three guided walks, the first on September 2 with Richard...

Learn about Forest Ecology and Tree IDJoin the Bidwell House Museum for our 2nd Housatonic Heritage Walk of 2023, Forest Ecology and Tree Identification with a DCR Forester, on September 9 at 10 am. During this walk visitors will explore the woodland trails of the Bidwell House Museum with Tom Ryan, DCR state forester. Participants...

Learn about Berkshire County's Industrial Heritage Drive around the county, and it’s hard to miss the large, brick building on the corner, behind the trees, or down the street. They’re in almost every town, over 500 of them in the Berkshires by the end of the 1800s, producing textiles, iron, paper, glass, shoes, rakes or...

Explore the history of the Monterey Mills On September 23 the Bidwell House Museum will host its final Housatonic Heritage Walk of the 2023 season at the Monterey Library with Rob Hoogs. The village of Monterey today is small and quaint, but in the 1740s through the late 1800s it was bustling with saw mills,...