History of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, USA

Long Meadow [Longmeadow], Massachusetts
Hampden county. This is a beautiful town with a fine soil on the E. side of Connecticut river, 97 miles S.W. by W. from Boston, 5 S. from Springfield, and 22 N. from Hartford, Ct. Incorporated, 1783. Population, 1837, 1,251. There are several tanneries in the town, and some other manufactures, but the inhabitants are generally engaged in cultivating the soil. The Indian name of this place was Massacsick.

Longraeadow was originally a part of Springfield.

It lies on the eastern bank of the Connecticut, and is a very pleas- ant agricultural town.

Distance from Springfield, 4 miles ; from Boston, 97.

Long Meadow, a post-township of Hampden co., Massachusetts, on the left bank of the Connecticut river, about 4 miles S. from Springfield. It is intersected by the New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield railroad. Population, 1252.

Longmeadow is a fine farming town in the southern part of Hampden County, about 102 miles southwest of Boston. It lies on the east shore of Connecticut River, which separates it from Agawam. Springfield bounds it on the north, Hampden on the east, and Somers and Enfield, in Connecticut, on the south. The assessed area is 13,570 acres; in which are included 4,082 acres of woodland. There is little hilliness except in the eastern section, where the bed-rock is red sandstone. From the quarries here are taken large quantities of what is known as the " Longmeadow red freestone." In 1885, more than 200 men were employed in quarrying and dressing the stone. East Longmeadow, the village and post-office in this section, is on the Hartford and Springfield Branch of the New England Railroad. On the upland, parallel to the river, in the western part, is a broad street numerously occupied by dwellings. The southern cluster is Longmeadow post-office and village, and the northern is West Longmeadow...

Long Meadow, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., in Long Meadow township, on the E. bank of the Connecticut River, and on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 4 miles S. of Springfield. Pop of the township, 1467.

Many Acres of Woodland Burned Over - A Veteran's Home Destroyed.

The most extensive forest fire in Longmeadow for years raged yesterday, and the red light shooting up for miles in the east last evening showed that it was still burning. The fire was first discovered in the vicinity of Converse street, east of South park terrace, about 8 in the morning, and the strong wind drove it southward until it reached Jawback and burned a house and barn on the Brainard road, belonging to a Mr. St. John, formerly of this city. Mr. St. John, who is a one-legged civil was pensioner, lost nearly everything but the clothes he wore. The fire was still burning near the Shaker ponds last evening, and had not been gotten under control. It is estimated that several hundred acres have been burned over.

Ethan C. Ely alone having 150 to 200 acres burned, some of it timber wooded, and other tracts not as valuable. James Burbank, C. S. Allen, W. C. Pease, F. B. Allen and the Colton brothers were also...