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Photograph of South Lee Historic District
Photograph by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

South Lee Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 21 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Berkshire County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Then and now

1888 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering South Lee Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering South Lee Historic District, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of South Lee Historic District between 2003 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 September 2016Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachussetts State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 July 2019Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
13 May 2020Other causesunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of South Lee Historic District: 6 past producers, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Marble, Dimension, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lee Lime CorpCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Lee Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lee Marble Inc Qy & PlantMarble, DimensionProducer
Lee White Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Abby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Abby and Sons IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beacco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Donovan Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J Donovan and SonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lenox Dale PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

Maps showing this location

21 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Merrell Tavernunder 500 feet1972
Stockbridge Casino1.1 miles1976
Villa Virginia1.5 miles1983
Elm-Maple-South Streets Historic District1.6 miles2004
Mission House1.8 miles1968
Main Street Historic District1.9 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000237 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Berkshire CountyAll 183 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.