About Stockbridge, Massachusetts (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. The population was 2,276 at the 2000 census. It is the setting for Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant". Stockbridge was first settled in 1734 and was officially incorporated in 1739.

The painter Norman Rockwell lived and made most of his famous works in Stockbridge. The Norman Rockwell Museum is located in Stockbridge.

Stockbridge was also the home to Mumbet, late in her life. A slave freed via the underground railroad, Mumbet worked in the household of the Massachusetts statesman Judge Theodore Sedgwick. She is buried in Stockbridge's downtown cemetery.

The town was the location of the Mohicans/Stockbridge Indians, who were forced to leave in spite of assistance provided to the American cause during the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War and other occasions.

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