The school serves the towns of Becket, Cummington, Dalton, Hinsdale, Peru, Washington, and Windsor.

Wahconah was a Mahican Indian Princess who the elders wanted to marry a Mohawk warrior.

She, however, loved an Algonquian warrior named Nessacus, who risked his life to save her from a bear attack.

The matter was to be decided by fate, whereby her canoe would drift to either man standing on opposite banks of the river.

[5] The Building was built shortly after the creation of the district, and was finished by the start of the 1961 school year.