. 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 127 allowed a large manufacture. As the words are used in theUnited States, an armory is a place for the manufacture ofarms and an arsenal a place where they are stored. It was decided that the. * * vi; Ion5 fellow. heavy work offorging the bar-rels should bedone at theWater-shops, where thetrip hammercould be run by water power,and on the hill, Armory Hill,should be done the lighter workof filing, milling and
. 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 127 allowed a large manufacture. As the words are used in theUnited States, an armory is a place for the manufacture ofarms and an arsenal a place where they are stored. It was decided that the. * * vi; Ion5 fellow. heavy work offorging the bar-rels should bedone at theWater-shops, where thetrip hammercould be run by water power,and on the hill, Armory Hill,should be done the lighter workof filing, milling and street was then runstraight through the woods andover the plain to connect the twoparts of the Armory, and on thehill there began to be, as it were,almost a village by itself, com-posed largely of armorers, witheven lawyers offices, and a distinct were these commun-ities that there was rivalry be-tween the boys of the Hilland the Street, and snowballand other fights were commonbetween Hillers and Streeters. When a boy of eitherset passed the line of School and Spring streets he was sub-ject to attack by the boys of the other side. The Armory has long been noted for its excellent gunsand the old Springfield musket did good service in the 128 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD Civil war; but, good as it was, the present Springfield rifleshows what may be acc
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