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4 Bedrooms
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6 Bedrooms
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3 Bedrooms
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| Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Population |
156,983 |
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| Tax Rate |
16.03 (2008) |
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| Town Web Site |
Town Web Site |
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| School Research |
Department of Education
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Independent Research
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Springfield, Massachusetts is located
Southwestern Massachusetts, bordered by Agawam and West Springfield on the west,
Chicopee and Ludlow on the north, Wilbraham on the east, and Longmeadow and East
Longmeadow on the south. Springfield is 89 miles southwest of Boston; 25 miles
from Hartford, Connecticut; and 134 miles from New York City. Principal highways are U.S. Route 5 and I-291, which connects Springfield
with the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). I-91 running N-S passes along the
city's western border. Passenger rail service is available from Springfield to Boston, Washington
D.C, and all other points on the Amtrak network. Conrail and the
Springfield Terminal Railway (STRR) offer freight service to Springfield,
which is the site of an intermodal facility. Conrail operates a Paper
Connection distribution center in the city. Contact number for Conrail:
(617) 783-6222; for the STRR, (508) 663-1073.
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| The City of Springfield is a major urban industrial center of metropolitan
status at the junction of regional routes between Boston and New York. The
city lies in the Connecticut River Valley, and was originally settled as a
private plantation of the Massachusetts Bay colony by William Pynchon in
1636. Commercial trade was the main business of the city from its earliest
history, beginning with Pynchon's fur trading with the Indians. Trading
led to warehousing and increasing population spurred the establishment of a
saw mill. A painful setback in development occurred in 1675, when raids
during King Philip's war destroyed 45 of the 60 houses in the settlement,
but the community recovered and the building of the county courthouse in
1723 and the U.S. Armory in 1794 boosted development. By 1820,
Springfield's population of 3,914 made it the largest community in western
Massachusetts. There were mills and cotton duck factories in town, but for
174 years, the armory remained the U.S. Army's primary design and
production facility for small arms. This attracted skilled workers, among
them inventor Thomas Blanchard who produced a steam motor carriage in 1826
and a steamboat on the river in 1828. David Ames established a paper mill
and invented a cylinder paper machine in 1822, becoming the largest
producer in the state. The railroad arrived in the 1830's and the city
became after 1859, the hub of rail lines. Iron works in Springfield built
bridges, trusses, locomotives and railroad coaches. The Civil War brought
"intense and concentrated prosperity" to the city, according to historians.
The city produced ammunition, uniforms and swords and employment at the
armory leaped from 200 to 2600 when the army's other armory at Harper's
Ferry was lost to the South.
After the war, when many communities lost their industrial capacity,
Springfield shifted to producing luxury and consumer goods such as parlor
games, gold chains, ice skates and photo albums. Immigrants in the city
came from Ireland, French Canada and Italy to work in diversified
production of everything from lawnmowers to beer. The auto industry began
in Springfield when Charles and Frank Duryea built the first American car
in 1893 and won the first auto race in the country in 1895. The motorcycle
industry also began in Springfield in 1902. In 1900 there were over 500
plants in the city, 10% of all such facilities in the entire state. By the
middle of the 20th century such companies as Westinghouse and Rolls Royce
were located in Springfield, which remains in modern times a business and
commercial hub of the area. |
Map of Springfield
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Some information gathered on Springfield, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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