The Town of Lenox was a quarter-century old when Hartford bell-founder Enos Doolittle cast a bell, presumably for the Berkshire County Court House in 1792. According to numismatic researcher Julia Casey, Doolittle purchased 800 pounds of Connecticut coppers from the state treasury, which was retiring its coinage to make way for the new Federal currency. Doolittle offered to pay cash for old brass and copper in a Hartford Courant ad from April 9, 1792.
In 1815, a new court house was built, but the bell in its cupola is the same 1792 bell of Enos Doolittle. The bell will be rung this Saturday, March 11 at 9:00 a.m., to commemorate the 255th anniversary of Lenox’s first town meeting in 1767. Ed Lane of the Lenox Select Board will do the honors.