. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. d detached, was called the light-house. Here thefamous Zenas Parsons held sway a hundred years ago, and many an anec-dote remains of those days of flip-irons and toddy. Gen. Washingtontarried here over night, while on his New-England inspecting tour. ButParsons retired with the century in which he was born : and the dignified,slow Eleazer Williams succeeded him. When James Monroe paid Spring-field a visit, early in his presidency, he found John Bennett in charge. Soonafterward the property was
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. d detached, was called the light-house. Here thefamous Zenas Parsons held sway a hundred years ago, and many an anec-dote remains of those days of flip-irons and toddy. Gen. Washingtontarried here over night, while on his New-England inspecting tour. ButParsons retired with the century in which he was born : and the dignified,slow Eleazer Williams succeeded him. When James Monroe paid Spring-field a visit, early in his presidency, he found John Bennett in charge. Soonafterward the property was sold to Erastus Chapin : and in 1819 he sold theplace to a company of public-spirited townspeople, who forthwith bought theadjoining homestead and opened Court Square. In its last days the tavernis remembered as the humble lodging-place of two boys, who slept togetheron the attic floor, and were up early in the morning to drive ox-carts fromthe middle landing, and deliver the river merchandise to the various names were Chester W. Chapin and Willis Phelps. The main part r - \ - • -. i American House. 2 Steblmiss Tavern. 3 Hampden House. SOME OLD-TIME TAVERNS. 96 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. of the old tavern was moved back toward the river at the foot of the thennew thoroughfare, Court Street, where it now stands, still guiltless of paintand in its simple colonial A few rods north of the Parsons tavern, stood the public-house of MosesChurch, the postmaster. Walking up the village street, the stranger intown would find a hearty welcome from Lieut. John Worthington. Hisestate ran back to the river, and included Bridge and Worthington John died in 1774; and his son, Hon. John, a Yale too proud to mix toddy. But some time after his death in 1800. thehouse reverted to its former use : being kept during the War of 1812-15 byElijah Goodrich, the founder of Springfields fame in horse-trotting. CharlesStearns, the pioneer real-
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