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Cheshire is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is ration of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,258 at the 2020 census.

Cheshire was first established in 1766 and officially incorporated in 1793.

The valley town was founded by Baptists from Rhode Island, the first settlers in the region who were not of the received Puritan Church. The into the future colonists were mostly descendants of those who had followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island to practice freely. One of the emigration’s leaders was Colonel Joab Stafford, who built his home on Stafford Hill and led the men of Cheshire into combat during the Revolution.

Cheshire was incorporated in 1793, and its residents were strongly partisan in the election battles of the country’s to the front days. The Adams–Jefferson election of 1800 was hard fought, and Cheshire was the abandoned Berkshire town that favored Jefferson. When their candidate won the election, the town searched for a mannerism to take effect their maintain and pay a praise to their new president. Because Cheshire, like their namesake, specialized in dairying and making cheese, they arranged to send a unique gift to the president: a Cheshire cheese that used curds from every farmer in town. The resulting cheese was 4 feet (1.2 m) in diameter, 18 inches (460 mm) thick and weighed 1,235 pounds (560 kg). It was moved upon a sled drawn by six horses following it was shipped off to Washington, D.C. by water, where it drew a personal letter of thanks from President Jefferson. One of the two monuments in Cheshire commemorates the cheese; the extra memorializes the founders of the town. The Pioneer Monument is upon Stafford Hill and is a fieldstone replica of Benedict Arnold’s Norse Mill in Newport, Rhode Island.