Hello, Anyone with an interest in the village of Mount Riga in Salisbury, Litchfield County, CT is invited to subscribe to a new rootsweb mailing list. The village existed from the 1700s to the early 1900s and was on the border of Litchfield County, CT and Berkshire County, MA adjacent to the Town of Mount Washington, MA. Many Mount Riga residents had migrated from Berkshire County to work in the iron furnace on the mountain. After the iron industry faded some residents went to towns such as Lee, MA to work in the paper mills or other industries. The CT-MTRIGA mailing list is open to anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the now-extinct village of Mt. Riga, Connecticut, and its residents who called themselves "Raggies." To subscribe send a message containing jus the word "subscribe" to ct-mtriga-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or ct-mtriga-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode). For more information, contact the list administrator at CT-MTRIGA-admin@rootsweb.com Diane Gonthier CT-MTRIGA mailing list administrator