Lenox, town, Berkshire County, western Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills, near Pittsfield; incorporated 1767. A noted resort, Lenox is the site of the estate of Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Permanently settled in 1762 as Yokuntown, the community was separated from Richmond in 1767 and renamed for Charles Lennox, 3rd duke of Richmond and Lennox, a supporter of colonial rights. In the 19th century Lenox was a literary center, the home for a time of the American writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine M. Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others; Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales (1853) here. Several great estates, such as the American industrialist Andrew Carnegie's Shadowbrooke, also were established in the town, but most of these had been broken up or given to educational institutions by the mid-20th century. Population 6,523 (1980); 5,069 (1990); 1,702 (1996 estimate).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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