GREAT BARRINGTON, a town of Berkshire county, Mass., U.S.A., on the Housatonic river in the southern Berkshire hills. It is served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. The area is 45 sq.m., and the population in 193o was 5,934. Mountains, forests, meadows, lakes and streams make the region one of charming scenery, and there are many hotels and private summer homes in the town. A number of i8th century farmhouses still stand, and quiet old villages may still be found in secluded spots. The principal manufactures are cotton yarn, bedspreads, fine writing papers and vacuum flasks. The town was incorporated in 1761, and from then until 1787 it was the county seat. During the Shay's Rebellion it was a centre of disaffection. William Cullen Bryant, who lived here as lawyer and who was the town clerk from 1816 to 1825, embodied the Indian legend of Monument Mountain (just north of Great Barrington) in one of his poems.