Shay’s Rebellion Last Battle Site in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Shay’s Rebellion Last Battle Site in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

The area south of Great Barrington is a very rustic and quiet region in the far western corner of Massachusetts filled with farmland, country roads, and scattered woods. Along one of these roads connecting the towns of Sheffield and South Egremont, is a stone marker and information sign. Although it may not look like much, the aptly named Rebellion Road nearby gives a hint to the significance this location once played in U.S. history.  When the …