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Tag: Great Barrington Water Board

Life In the Berkshires

Part II: The perilous lives of Great Barrington’s 49th Regiment volunteers — Frederick Deland and the bungling bank robbers

The crooks spied on the bank’s chief teller from the recesses of an isolated ravine northerly of Russell House on Castle Hill Avenue. After weeks of plotting, the out-of-town thugs staged a daring robbery in May 1875.

by Bernard A. Drew
Posted on May 26, 2020
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