Where in the world?
Myself and my husband have travelled across the pond
( the North Atlantic Ocean) from our hometown in Nottingham England (to some of our fellow Americans 'a couple of hours from London', the most recognisable city of our small wee island...until you mention Robin Hood!) , to a place called Williamstown Massachusetts.
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Distance:
3268 Miles (if you include Nottingham to
Williamstown, Massachusetts)
Flying time:
Flying time max depending on stops and airline can take from 6-7 hours on average. You can fly from Birmingham to Boston in 6 hours (7 if there are delays and with a good head wind :)
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We are here! Note the BIG arrow, in an even bigger country!
Williamstown, is about two and a half hours from the state capital Boston, Massachusetts, and also neighbour's the states Vermont, and New York.
Williamstown, is a small town nestled in The Berkshire County, and runs along the beautiful Hoosac river. It shares a border between, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont, as it is right in the corner within the Berkshire county.
A bit of history...
Before it was known as Williamstown, the land was all farmland and meadows, running along the Hoosac River.
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It was once home to native Mohawk tribe who used it as their hunting ground and dwellings. It became a settlement,
used to fortify against the arrival of Dutch settlers encroaching on land of Massachusetts from New York.
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In 1750 the land was put up for sale by a chap named Ephraim Williams who was the Colonal of Massachusetts Bay colony.
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The trouble was, the ownership over the land was in dispute.
In the years that proceeded all of whom wanted to pass through, or to claim power of the land.
Ephraim wanted to have definitive right of the land legally, and so had a contract made to say the land was his, which he did, and so the land became known as Williamstown.
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In 1793, Williams College first opened its doors, & is still a well a highly acclaimed place to study.
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