Mr. Watson was a traveller who retired to Pittsfield and introduced the area to Merino sheep in 1807. The Merino sheep were highly prized for its wool, Five years later, Berkshire County mills were manufacturing 12,000 pounds of wool annually. By 1837, the peak year for sheep raised in Berkshire County, nearly $250,000 worth of wool was produced in the United States, as mills used 481,500 pounds of wool each year. Fifty-three percent of that wool was produced in the Berkshires. He is also the originator of the Berkshire Agriculture Society which was first in the region.
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