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Longmeadow was first settled in 1644, and officially incorporated October 17, 1783. The town was originally farmland within the limits of Springfield. It remained relatively pastoral until the street railway was built c.1910, when the population tripled over a fifteen-year period. After Interstate 91 was built in the wetlands on the west side ...
Longmeadow. Categories: town in the United States and locality. Location: Town of Longmeadow, Hampden, Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 42.0505° or 42° 3' 2" north. Longitude. -72.5825° or 72° 34' 57" west. Population.
- Longmeadow Historic District
- Forest Park
- Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge
- Zoo in Forest Park and Education Center
- Longmeadow Historical Society
- The Olde Burying Yarde
- Riverfront Conservation Area
- Alex’s Bagel Shop
- Springfield
- Enfield Regional Farmers’ Market
If you had to picture a scene to epitomize a well-to-do New England town, it might look a lot like Longmeadow’s distinguished Town Green. Oriented north to south, this grassy space is on a long sandy ridge, about a mile east of the Connecticut River. On the sides are stately examples of 18th and 19th century architecture, and the presiding First Ch...
Longmeadow shares a boundary with this sprawling Victorian park, landscaped in the 1880s on high ground overlooking the Connecticut River. At 735 acres, Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the country, and as well as containing a wide assortment of recreation facilities, also has blissful natural swaths for passive activities. On the s...
The sanctuary protects more than 330 acres of beautiful and diverse frontage along the bank of the Connecticut River in Longmeadow. Created in the early 1950s, the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge contains a portion of the floodplain known as the Longmeadow Flats, made up of forest, meadows, and marshes, each comprising varied habitats for ...
Forest Park’s top year-round attraction is a zoo that has been a fixture since 1894. Run by a non profit organization, the Zoo in Forest Park is home to more than 200 native and exotic animals, and works with wildlife rehabilitators across the United States. For a brief summary of the many different species at the zoo, there’s Arctic foxes, spotted...
The local historical society was founded in 1899, and maintains the Storrs House Museum, a fine Colonial house built in 1786 and facing the Town Green. Each room of this building has been furnished to reflect a different period or facet of Longmeadow’s history. Making your way through this residence, you’ll be confronted by hundreds of years worth ...
For those intrigued by the history of early Longmeadow there’s much to learn at the town’s original cemetery. This is a section of Longmeadow Cemetery behind the First Church of Christ, off the Town Green, where the oldest marker is dated to 1682. Starting at the west end next to Williams St, the Longmeadow Historical Society has produced a self-gu...
Another public place in Longmeadow where you can get onto the bank of the Connecticut River is this town-owned conservation area on Anthony Road next to the Pioneer Valley Yacht Club. With 300 feet of serene grassy shoreline in the shade of mature trees, the Riverfront Conservation Area is somewhere to pause and take in the view, which is nothing s...
Across the road from Laurel Park on Route 5 is a beloved and long-standing independent bagel shop, which moved to this location in 2018. Alex’s Bagel Shop ended up here after their previous landlord, the Big Y supermarket chain, required them to leave their old premises. This prompted an outpouring of love, with over 1,000 people signing a petition...
On Longmeadow’s dignified residential streets it’s easy to forget that there’s a dynamic city a few short minutes away. Springfield is the third-largest city in Massachusetts, and the place where the United States’ first military armory was founded, where the sport of basketball was invented, and where treasured children’s author Dr. Seuss (Theodor...
One reason to make the short hop across the state line to Enfield, CT, is to browse this bustling farmers’ market, offering dozens of vendors each week. A Sunday event, the Enfield Regional Farmers’ Market sets up on the Town Green June through October, and in recent years has relocated to the Enfield Square Mall with an indoor market that runs unt...
The Town of Longmeadow has received an $824,325 grant award from the federal Land and Water ... The Town of Longmeadow 20 Williams Street Longmeadow, MA 01106.
Longmeadow Package Store, 400 Longmeadow Street, ☏ +1 413 567-3201. (Route 5). This is a small liquor store, but they have a good variety of liquors beers and wines. They are also one of the only locations in town that sells lottery tickets. edit. Four Seasons Wine and Liquors, 793 Williams Street, ☏ +1 413 567-3662.
On October 17, 1783, Longmeadow was incorporated as the first community in the newly formed Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Paperwork had been filed for incorporation before the Revolution, but with the outbreak of war it was shuffled aside. The “East Village” section of Longmeadow split off from the “West Village” in 1894 to form the ...
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