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Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
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Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
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Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Springfield Walks
Phone:
(217) 502-8687

Address:
1 Old State Capitol Plz, Springfield, IL 62701-1512

Springfield, Massachusetts was founded in 1636 as Agawam, the northernmost settlement of the Connecticut Colony. The settlement defected from Connecticut after four years, however, later joining forces with the coastal Massachusetts Bay Colony. The town changed its name to Springfield, and changed the political boundaries among what later became New England States. The history of Springfield, Massachusetts springs in large part from its favorable geography, situated on a steep bluff overlooking the Connecticut River's confluence with three tributaries. It was an ancient Indian crossroad for two major trade routes: Boston-to-Albany and New York City-to-Montreal. Springfield also sits on some of the northeastern United States' most fertile soil.Springfield flourished as a trading post and agricultural center until 1675's King Philip's War, when a coalition of Indians laid siege to Springfield and later burned it to the ground. Its prosperity waned for the next hundred years but, in 1777, Revolutionary War leaders made it a National Armory to store weapons, and in 1795 it began manufacturing muskets. Until 1968, the Armory made small arms. Its first American muskets were followed by the famous Springfield rifle and the revolutionary M1 Garand and M14s. The Springfield Armory attracted generations of skilled laborers to the city, making it the United States' longtime center for precision manufacturing . The Armory's near-capture during Shays Rebellion of 1787 was among the troubles that prompted the U.S. Constitutional Convention later that year.Innovations in the 19th and 20th centuries include the first American English dictionary , the first use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line in manufacturing , the first American horseless car , vulcanized rubber , the first American gasoline-powered car , the first American motorcycle company , an early commercial radio station (1921, WBZ, and most famously, the world's third-most-popular sport of basketball .
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