down, while others became prep schools, historic sites, or bed-and-breakfast inns. Today Berkshire is known throughout the East Coast and the country as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It includes attractions such as Tanglewood, Berkshire Museum, the Norman Rockwell Museum, Mass MOCA, and Hancock Shaker Village. Communities Cities North Adams Pittsfield (county seat) Towns Adams Alford Becket Cheshire Clarksburg Dalton Egremont Florida Great Barrington Hancock Hinsdale Lanesborough Lee Lenox Monterey Mount Washington New Ashford New Marlborough Otis Peru Richmond Sandisfield Savoy Sheffield Stockbridge Tyringham Washington West Stockbridge Williamstown Windsor Census-designated places Adams Cheshire Great Barrington Housatonic Lee Lenox Williamstown Transportation County-wide bus service is provided by the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority. Amtrak train service and Peter Pan intercity bus service is provided at Pittsfield. Airports Harriman-and-West Airport Pittsfield Municipal Airport (Massachusetts) Walter J. Koladza Airport Major Highways Notable residents Scholar and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, MA. His birthplace and other sites of interest are part of the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie resides in Berkshire County. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne resided at the "Little Red House" in Lenox, MA near the grounds of the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he wrote The House of Seven Gables and other novels. Author Herman Melville resided at Arrowhead in Pittsfield, MA, where he wrote the novel Moby Dick. Artist Norman Rockwell resided in Stockbridge, MA. Singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor resides in Berkshire County. Author Edith Wharton kept a home in Lenox, MA. Actor Mark Wahlberg often spends time Berkshire County has a residence in Pittsfield, MA. Actress Elizabeth Banks is from Pittsfield, MA. and often comes back and visits. Actress Karen Allen lives in Monterey. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has a home in Tyringham. Economy This county is the highest milk producer in the state. See also List of Massachusetts locations by per capita income Registry of Deeds (Massachusetts) National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkshire County, Massachusetts USS Berkshire County (LST-288) List of counties in Massachusetts References External links Berkshires.org (Berkshires vacation site) iBerkshires.com (news web site) Wall & Gray. 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts. Map of Massachusetts. USA. New England. Counties – Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden, Worcester, Middlesex, Essex and Norfolk, Boston – Suffolk, Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable and Dukes (Cape Cod). Cities – Springfield, Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Newburyport, Salem, Lynn, Taunton, Fall River. New Bedford.