The population includes many families that have descended from those farmers that settled where they had cleared the woods more than two hundred years ago, intermarried with the industrialists and immigrant mill workers that made their way up the river in the mid-nineteenth century.

There is also a large population of educators, professionals and others who have come to Williamsburg over the years, to enjoy the peace and tranquility of small town life. Perhaps, the character of the town is owed to the fabric of its past: an unusual history that has gone largely untold for generations. In 1874, the mill town, as it was then, suffered a great industrial disaster when the huge, poorly constructed reservoir burst, demolishing many mills, homes and lives along its course to the Connecticut River in Northampton.

Williamsburg Mass is located in Western Massachusetts, bordered by Conway on the north, Whately and Hatfield on the east, Northampton and Westhampton on the south, and Chesterfield and Goshen on the west. Williamsburg is 8 miles north of Northampton, 26 miles north of Springfield, 101 miles west of Boston.