. 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. 114 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD studies, their mode of traveling and even of eating and drink-ing were different. The change in so simple a matter as get-ting a drink of water is typical of everything else. Once awell sweep (page 24) stood by every door, except where therewas a convenient spring. The old oaken bucket, the mosscovered bucket is no more; there is not now a well sweepwithin the limits of Springfield. One of the first ancientcustoms to pa
. 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. 114 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD studies, their mode of traveling and even of eating and drink-ing were different. The change in so simple a matter as get-ting a drink of water is typical of everything else. Once awell sweep (page 24) stood by every door, except where therewas a convenient spring. The old oaken bucket, the mosscovered bucket is no more; there is not now a well sweepwithin the limits of Springfield. One of the first ancientcustoms to pass away was that of slavery. From the day ofJohn Stewart there had been slaves in Springfield, all, with. Map of Hampden County. that exception, black. Finally people all felt that slaverywas neither profitable nor right, and although the slaves hadalways been kindly treated as members of the family, yet thecustom vanished of itself without the passing of any lawagainst it. In this period, by the separation of Chicopee, Springfieldcame into the geographical form in which she has since re-mained, except for a slight change in the south line, and washenceforth the largest in population of the towns in the OLD TIMES AND NEW 115 valley. For a time this was not so. West Springfield, at onetime, grew so rapidly as to be ahead of the mother town, andin the Revolution was called on to furnish more soldiers thanSpringfield; but the census of 1810 showed Springfield themore populous. Springfield, too, became the shire town of anew county. In the old county of Hampshire, which ex-tended from Connecticut to New Hampshire and Vermontand was flanked east by Worcester and west by Berkshire,Northampton h
Size: 2238px × 1116px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookidhistoryofspr, bookyear1921
