Large Pipe on Route 183

As you meander along Route 183 north through Interlaken towards Tanglewood and Lenox, you may notice on the right hand side of the road, near the keystone arched bridge, an area where there was once a pipe. The large pipe pictured in this photograph from the turn of the last century, was one that fed water from upstream at the Stockbridge Bowl into the old Baker mill. Otis and Benjamin Baker tried their hands at textiles, wood pulp and as a foundry, but the mill was abandoned in 1893 and eventually torn down in 1927.

Stockbridge Library Museum & Archives Photography Collection 1994.823.9