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North Adams is an incorporated city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in the valley created by the Hoosic River, and it is part of the Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.

North Adams was first settled in 1745 during King George's War, when Fort Massachusetts was built on the bank of the Hoosic River, and the town was incorporated separately from Adams in 1878 and reincorporated as a city in 1895.

The city is named in honor of Samuel Adams, a leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Massachusetts.

The 2020 census recorded a population of 12,961 in North Adams, down from 13,708 in 2010 and from a mid-20th-century peak of 21,567 in 1950.

The 2020 census counted 5,888 households in North Adams, and the median age of residents was 42.6 years.

North Adams covers a total area of 20.61 square miles, of which 20.35 square miles is land and 0.27 square miles is water.

For much of its history North Adams was a mill town, and the Arnold Print Works became one of the world's leading manufacturers of printed textiles, employing about 3,200 workers by 1905.

North Adams was the headquarters for building the Hoosac Tunnel, begun in 1851 and completed in 1874, which added an east-west rail connection to Boston and Albany.

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, known as MASS MoCA, is located in the former Arnold Print Works and Sprague Electric complex in North Adams and is the largest contemporary art museum in the United States.

Natural Bridge State Park in North Adams contains the only natural white marble bridge in North America, formed by glacial melt by 11,000 BCE.