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Taconic Golf Club

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Taconic Golf Club is a semi-private golf course located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The land that Taconic Golf Club is owned by Williams College, but an independent Board of Directors oversees the daily operation. The course has repeatedly made Golf Magazine's list of the Top 100 Courses You Can Play and Golfweek's list of top collegiate campus courses, where it was most recently ranked 3rd in 2020. Golf Digest ranks Taconic as the 9th best course in the state of Massachusetts.

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East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel
East Lawn Cemetery and Sherman Burbank Memorial Chapel

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Williams College

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Allan Sekula Library at the Clark Art Institute
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