Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (Indian Orchard)
1906

Springfield, a city and seat of justice of Hampden co., Mass., is situated on the left bank of the Connecticut River, here crossed by several bridges, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Boston and Albany and other railroads... Springfield is one of the handsomest towns in the state. The site comprises the level along the river-bank and the W. portion of an elevated plain extending several miles E. Among the more notable public buildings are city-hall, court-house, city library (with about 140,000 volumes), Federal building, art museum, science museum, and the United States armory, the last-named established here in 1795 and the most extensive in the Union. The arsenal tower commands a beautiful view of the city and surrounding country. Springfield is the seat of a state almshouse, various hospitals, the French-American College, and of the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School. Among the city's pleasure-grounds is Forest Park, containing 464 acres. Springfield has several notable monumental works, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, the statue of "The Puritan," by St. Gaudens, etc. The city's industries are large and varied, and are represented by iron and brass-foundries, machine-shops, paper, cotton and woollen-mills, and manufactories of railroad-cars, fire-arms, rubber, tobacco and cigars, buttons, bicycles and automobiles, electrical apparatus, and lumber products. This place was settled about 1635 under its Indian name of Agawam. In 1640 it received the name of Springfield. It was incorporated as a city in 1852. Pop. in 1840, 10,958; in 1850, 11,766; in 1860, 15,199; in 1870, 26, 703; in 1880, 33,340; in 1890, 44,1790; in 1900, 62,059.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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