Macabre Pittsfield Walking Tours October 2023

Haunted downtown tours for kids returns Oct 20 at 6pm. 
Email taylor@ berkshirefamilyhikes.com to register

Explore ghoulish legends of the historic Park Square district and a glimpse into Pittsfield in the Golden age. An easy stroll around several iconic houses, venues, and other important buildings of downtown.

Oct 21 @7PM – $10 or $7 paid in advance. Email berkshirehomehistorian@gmail.com to reserve your place. 

From grave-robbing at the Pittsfield Common to the deadly Black Hand bombings: a century of brothels, opium dens, and liquor raids … of brawls and race riots… the Macabre Pittsfield: 1800s walking tour explores the murders, mayhem and mercantilism that grew a colonial village to a city (c.1790-1910)
Tickets: $10 ($7 in advance).

Tour runs approximately 90 minutes. Email berkshirehomehistorian@gmail.com to register

Opened in 1850 as the city outgrew its downtown burying grounds, Pittsfield Cemetery was originally designed by Dr Horatio Stone. It holds the remains of nearly 30,000 dead across over 80 acres.

Ignoring the official website tour, “City of the Dead” will explore fascinating and tragic stories from some of the less-well-known lives of those whose remains rest here. It will also lay bare the darker history of the place itself: the vandalism, assaults, exhumations, reinterments, murders and suicides that have taken place in this peaceful park of monuments…

Tickets: $10 ($7 in advance). Tour runs approximately 90 minutes. Email berkshirehomehistorian@gmail.com to register

Dates:

Sat Oct 21 –  4pm
Sat Oct 28 –  4pm
Sun Oct 29 – 4pm
Mon Oct 30 – 6pm (after dark)