Clarksburg is a New England town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,686 at the 2000 census.

History
Clarksburg was first settled in 1764 and was officially incorporated in 1798.

Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock, and Nicholas Clark are credited with having originally settled the eventual township in 1769, and the latter ultimately became Clarksburg's namesake. The town began as a mostly agrarian community, with mills springing up along the waterways in the nineteenth century. The major mills were...

Clarksburg is a New England town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,686 at the 2000 census.

History
Clarksburg was first settled in 1764 and was officially incorporated in 1798.

Captain Matthew Ketchum, Colonel William Bullock, and Nicholas Clark are credited with having originally settled the eventual township in 1769, and the latter ultimately became Clarksburg's namesake. The town began as a mostly agrarian community, with mills springing up along the waterways in the nineteenth century. The major mills were a one to make cashmere, and several mills supplied gunpowder during the American Civil War. However, the industry was stopped by the town after one of the mills exploded in 1869.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 12.8 square miles (33.3 km²), of which, 12.8 square miles (33.0 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (0.62%) is water.

Clarksburg is located at 42?42 42.86'N,73?05 02.97'W. Clarksburg is bordered Pownal, Vermont and Stamford, Vermont on the north, Florida, Massachusetts on the east, North Adams, Massachusetts on the south, and Williamstown, Massachusetts on the west.