. 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. ranch and south branchtill these meet at the Watershops pond. After tumbling overtwo dams below the point of union the river loses itself in theConnecticut, near York street. It was so useful in the earliesttimes of the white settlers in grinding all the grain and sawingall the lumber that they thought Mill River a good and honorable name,and if thosewho come afterus are sensible,by that name itwill always beknown. It stillturns the greatwheel at
. 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. ranch and south branchtill these meet at the Watershops pond. After tumbling overtwo dams below the point of union the river loses itself in theConnecticut, near York street. It was so useful in the earliesttimes of the white settlers in grinding all the grain and sawingall the lumber that they thought Mill River a good and honorable name,and if thosewho come afterus are sensible,by that name itwill always beknown. It stillturns the greatwheel at theWatershops andthus has a handin making the ri-fles of the UnitedStates army. Next to Millriver, the streamthat has beenmost importantin the towns history, except the Chicopee, or rivers thatare no longer in the limits of Springfield, was the Townbrook. The Town brook, called in its upper part Gardenbrook, rises to the east of St. James avenue bridge and flow-ing down the valley, formerly divided near the corner of Springand Worthington streets, one branch going north and circlingto the north of Round Hill on its way to the river, while the. Mill River at the Watershops. From Marco Paul at the Springfield Armory, by Jacob Abbott, 1853. NATURAL FEATURES 5 other branch reached Main street, near Worthington, andflowed along the easterly side of the street, which it crossednear York street and thence entered the river. But the watersof the once famous Town brook are now diverted intosewers, where they do a very useful, if very dirty work. Thebrook as it flowed by Main street was once a clear, good streamin which to fish. Such has been also the doom of other prettyrural brooks that once flowed among grassy banks from theslopes of the higher lands in now thickly settled parts of thecity. Some of them, before the days of steam, were pondedby dams in order to create power for small factories. One of these ponds covered the region of Avon is a little brook which even toda
Size: 1637px × 1527px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidhistoryofspr, bookyear1921
