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is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,872 at the 2000 census.
Originally part of Northern Berkshire Township Number 2 and including all of Peru and part of Middlefield, the town was first settled in 1763 and was officially incorporated as Partridgefield in 1771. Originally named for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town (along with Governor Francis Bernard), the Western Parish officially broke away from its eastern half and incorporated in 1804, renaming itself for one of the earliest families in town, the Hinsdales, who also owned an important woolen mill. The mill was the center of economic activity in town until the Great Depression, when it closed. Today, the town is mostly rural, surviving mostly as a distant suburb of Pittsfield.