and stores, while $200,000 worth of marble was sent from its quarries to various parts of the country. The position taken by the town also in intellectual and political movements was no insignificant one. When Massachusetts was on the point of rejecting the new Constitution of the United States, Jonathan Smith from Lanesborough addressed the State convention and won it over to the side of ratification. The chief hill in Lanesborough is named Constitution Hill in honor of the event. Daniel Webster afterwards said of Jonathan Smith that "of all the men he had known this was the one most characterized by sound sense, correct principles, and a correct judgment as to public affairs." The first definite movement to plant the Episcopal Church in all the larger towns of Massachusetts was due to a delegate from the Lanesborough Episcopal parish;* and it was the men of Lanesborough who laid the foundation of those local agricultural societies which have since done so much for farming interests in New England.
The frequent disparaging mention of dogs in Josh Billings's "Farmer's Allminax" and other writings makes it seem likely that Lanesborough had more than its share of these faithful friends of mankind.
