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The City of Springfield is the economic center of Western Massachusetts. It features the Pioneer Valley 's largest concentration of retail, manufacturing, entertainment, banking, legal, and medical groups. Springfield is home to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' largest Fortune 100 company, MassMutual Financial Group.
The history of Springfield, Massachusetts dates back to the colonial period, when it was founded in 1636 as Agawam Plantation, named after a nearby village of Algonkian-speaking Native Americans. It was the northernmost settlement of the Connecticut Colony.
Springfield, city, seat (1812) of Hampden county, southwestern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Connecticut River. It forms a contiguous urban area with Agawam and West Springfield (west), Chicopee and Holyoke (north), Ludlow (northeast), Wilbraham and Hampden (east), and East Longmeadow (south).
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May 30, 2024 · City of Springfield Commemorates Memorial Day. Mayor Domenic J. Sarno joined with Health and Human Services Commissioner Helen Caulton-Harris, Director of Springfield Veterans’ Services Joe DeCaro, and the Springfield Veterans’ Services Department along with city and state officials for the city….
Jan 5, 2014 · Springfield’s old City Hall, sometime before 1905. Photo from Springfield Present and Prospective (1905). The view in 2023: Although settled in 1636, Springfield wasn’t incorporated as a city until 1852. Four years later, the first city hall was built here, on the north side of Court Square.
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The Springfield Preservation Trust has taken on an effort to digitally scan the 1938-1939 WPA images archive, physically housed at the Springfield Building Division.
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