Mount Greylock

 
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Mount Greylock:

Mount Greylock is the highest mountain in Massachusetts and rises up out of the foothills of the Berkshires here in Williamstown and provides the background of my shop. In the 18^{th  century .,} Ephraim Williams commanded a detachment of militia at Fort Massachusetts and founded Williams College.

He named this mountain Saddleback Mountain or Saddleball depending on where you were looking at it from. Sometime in the middle of the 19^th.Century the name was changed to Mount Greylock, named for a famous Indian war chief.