Sandisfield

Tucked in the county's corner, town is sparsely settled
SANDISFIELD — It's the largest town in Berkshire County by area (52 square miles), and also the most sparsely settled. Sandisfield. Its 763 year-round residents are scattered in five separate hamlets, and there's no well-defined town center, though commercial activity is centered in the New Boston community, where Routes 8 and 57 converge.   Full Story

Settled: 1736. Incorporated: 1762. Named for: Lord Samuel Sandys, the newly appointed first Lord of "Trade and The Plantations." Members of the Sandys family had settled in the South Sandisfield area. Population: 824 (2000 U.S. Census); 763 (2007 town census).   Full Story

Includes the villages of Montville, New Boston, West New Boston, South Sandisfield and Roosterville. Older maps also identify a northeastern section known as Beech Plain. The town has nine cemeteries dispersed widely over its 52 square miles. With fewer than 16 people per square mile, Sandisfield is the seventh most sparsely settled community among 351 municipalities in   Full Story