Ludlow, Massachusetts Ludlow, Massachusetts Ludlow Town Green Ludlow Town Green Official seal of Ludlow, Massachusetts Location in Hampden County in Massachusetts Location in Hampden County in Massachusetts "Ludlow" is a New England town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
The populace was 21,103 as of the 2010 census, and it is considered part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Although plans were drawn up for settlement as early as 1685, inside the initial boundaries of Springfield, Massachusetts was settled in 1751 as Stony Hill Parish.
However, the town was later retitled Ludlow and incorporated as a separate entity in 1774, just before the breakout of the American Revolution. For much of its early history the town was agrarian and today many of Ludlow's street names are derived from the names of these farming families (e.g.
Before the Civil War, the town began to precarious into a foundry town.
Then Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Hutchinson retitled the town from the District of Stony Hill to Ludlow.
The town of Ludlow was possibly titled after Roger Ludlow, one of the framers of the Connecticut Colony or titled after Ludlow, a town in England.
In 1868, the biggest mill was opened and directed by the Ludlow Company (The Ludlow Clock Tower is depicted on the town seal), who produced jute yarns, twine, and webbing.
This business helped shape the town by providing housing, a library, schools, playgrounds, and even a clubhouse for the increasingly diverse community. In the 20th century, this business moved to India and is now known as Ludlow Jute and Specialties of Mumbai. In the early 20th century Ludlow advanced from a foundry town into a streetcar suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, with a street car line running over the bridge from Indian Orchard.
Ludlow also had two barns s that traversed the town: the Springfield, Athol and North-eastern Railroad and the Hamden Railroad.
Ludlow's populace boomed in the 1950s with the creation of Interstate 90, known in Massachusetts as the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Thompson, who was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Massachusetts General Court at the time, was influential in gaining an exit on the Turnpike for Ludlow (now Exit 7) and later the Turnpike influenced the expansion of Ludlow as a suburb of Springfield.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 28.2 square miles (73 km2), of which 27.1 square miles (70 km2) are territory and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2) (3.83%) is water.
Ludlow is bordered by Chicopee on the west, Granby on the north, Belchertown on the northeast, Palmer on the east, Wilbraham on the south, and Springfield on the southwest.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Portuguese-Americans make up 21% of the populace of the town. The Portuguese church Our Lady of Fatima puts on an annual Festa, which is one of the most momentous cultural affairs for Portuguese-Americans in the country. Ludlow is also home to many who are of Polish and French Canadian descent.
The town's high school soccer team is the most dominant in Western Mass and has recently been ranked 16th nationally by the NSCAA and has won many state championships as well, including the most recent one in 2011.
In 1996, the National Soccer Hall of Fame added Ludlow to its soccer history display.
The town is served by three enhance elementary schools, East Street School, Chapin Street School, and Veterans Park Elementary School.
Previously students attended elementary school based on their residence, but starting with the 2009-2010 school year a reorganization plan took effect in which preschool, Kindergarten and First Grade attend East Street, grades 2-3 attend Chapin Street, and grades 4-5 attend Veterans Park.
Baird Middle School, and Ludlow High School is the town's only enhance high school.
The nearest state universities are the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Westfield State University.
The nearest private universities from the center of Ludlow are Western New England University, American International College, and Springfield College, all in Springfield.
Ludlow is positioned at exit 7 on I-90, known as the Massachusetts Turnpike.
State Highway 21 joins Ludlow to Springfield and Belchertown, and there are small-town bus routes to Springfield.
That connect Ludlow to Springfield.
The at undertaking was later used as the Massachusetts Turnpike from the Chicopee border to the Minnechaog Mountain curve about where Miller and East streets are today and continued onto Palmer.
Several of the concrete structures still remain in the less populated areas of Ludlow.
List of foundry towns in Massachusetts Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ludlow, Massachusetts.
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"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
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"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
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Ludlow, Massachusetts Municipalities and communities of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
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