Towns-Hinsdale

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This quiet and beautiful rural town was founded in the 1760s and incorporated in 1804. Israel Bissell, a Revolutionary War hero, once lived here. There used to be a flourishing textile industry here in the late 1800s. Hinsdale today is home to the environmentally critical Hinsdale Flats Watershed Resource Area.

Today, the town is a favorite residential and holiday destination. Lake Ashmere and Plunkett Lake offer summer camps. The Appalachian Trail passed through Hinsdale. Noted sculptor and painter John Stritch lives here today.

Population: 1,900

Area: 21.7 sq. miles

Density: 88.47 persons/ sq. mile

Nearest Airport: Pittsfield