. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. OLD TIMES AND NEW 119. familiar sceneshereabouts inolden times andare now in someparts of thecountry. Onewho wishes torecall in imagi-nation the way ofliving in the olddays may visit the Day house in West Springfield and see theancient relics. But about the beginning of the nineteenth century severalevents happened, which in the end changed all this and madeSpringfield, first, a large town, and then a city. The chiefof these was the discovery of
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. OLD TIMES AND NEW 119. familiar sceneshereabouts inolden times andare now in someparts of thecountry. Onewho wishes torecall in imagi-nation the way ofliving in the olddays may visit the Day house in West Springfield and see theancient relics. But about the beginning of the nineteenth century severalevents happened, which in the end changed all this and madeSpringfield, first, a large town, and then a city. The chiefof these was the discovery of the useful power of steam; thismeant steamboats and railroads. Others were the inventionof the power loom and the spinning jenny, moved at first bywater power; this meant the gathering of people into millsand the disappearance of cloth manufacture from the machinery, in which Thomas Blanchard, of this town,won much fame as an inventor, began to take the place ofhuman hands, the family life was all changed. There wasless to be doneand the biggerboys could goto school insummer, whenbefore theycotild only bespared in thewinter. With
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