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Downtown Westfield and Park Square.
Flag of Westfield, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Westfield, Massachusetts Westfield is a town/city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, United States.
Westfield was first settled in 1660.
10 Bands from Westfield In 1647, Massachusetts made Woronoco part of Springfield, Massachusetts. Land was incrementally purchased from the Native Americans and granted by the Springfield town meeting to English settlers, beginning in 1658.
The region of Woronoco or "Streamfield" began to be permanently settled in the 1660s. In 1669, "Westfield" was incorporated as an autonomous town; in 1920, it would be re-incorporated as a city.
From its beginning until 1725, Westfield was the westernmost settlement in Massachusetts Colony, and portions of it fell inside the Equivalent lands.
At one point in the 19th century, Westfield was a prominent center of the buggy whip industry, and the town/city is still known as the "Whip City." Westfield transformed itself from an agricultural town into a grow industrialized city in the 19th century, but in the second half of the 20th century its manufacturing base was eroded by wage competition in the U.S.
South of the river, the intersecting trends of expansion of Westfield State University and declining manufacturing changed the city's character.
Students comprise some 15% of Westfield's populace and the old downtown company precinct caters increasingly to them while mainstream shopping relocates to a commercial strip called East Main St., actually part of U.S.
A Home Depot Store and a Price-Rite were recently added to Westfield's wide array of shopping centers.
Until a primary fire on January 6, 1952 the Westfield Professional Building veiled half a downtown town/city block and was six stories tall.
In the early 20th century, Westfield was at the center of the Pure Food movement, an accomplishment to require stricter standards on the manufacturing of food.
Allyn, a Westfield resident and pure foods expert for Mc - Clure's, lived in Westfield until his murder.
View of Snake Pond and the Westfield countryside from East Mountain Westfield is positioned at 42 7 46 N 72 44 46 W (42.129492, 72.745986). It is bordered on the north by Southampton, on the northeast by Holyoke, on the east by West Springfield, on the southeast by Agawam, on the south by Southwick, on the southwest by Granville, on the west by Russell, and on the northwest by Montgomery.
Westfield is split into the "South Side" and the "North Side" by the Westfield River, and the northwestern section of town is known as Wyben.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 47.3 square miles (123 km2), of which 46.6 square miles (121 km2) is territory and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (1.56%) is water.
Westfield is situated at the edge of the downfaulted Connecticut River Valley where the Westfield River emerges from the Berkshire Hills and flows through the center of the town/city on its way to the Connecticut River some ten miles (15 km) downstream.
Because of its large, steep and rocky upstream watershed the river has a history of harsh flood episodes, inundating adjoining parts of Westfield a several times.
In spite of a complicated fitness of pumps, dikes, waterways, and upstream dams, Westfield lies in a floodplain zone and is still considered flood apt.
Westfield is bordered on the east by linear cliffs of volcanic trap modern known as East Mountain and Provin Mountain.
Both mountain peaks are traversed by the 114-mile Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, that also crosses the Westfield River with an ill-advised fording or a safer road-walk athwart the bridge at the junction of Routes 187 and 20.
Westfield is the Mass Pike beneath which hikers can safely walk.
Westfield is on the fringe of the greater Northeast megalopolis the most densely populated region of the United States and has experienced substantial territory evolution for suburban residentiary and commercial uses for the past six decades.
Westfield is positioned 10 miles (16 km) away from Springfield, 29 miles (47 km) away from Hartford, 95 miles (153 km) away from Boston, 76 miles (122 km) from Albany, 39 miles (63 km) away from Pittsfield and 144 miles (232 km) from New York City.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Westfield is governed by a mayor and a town/city council, propel every two years.
The current mayor of Westfield is Brian Sullivan.
The Westfield City Council is composed of the following members: Westfield enhance library, 1899 Stanley Park of Westfield Westfield's enhance school fitness consists of one preschool, seven elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools.
Westfield Area Head Start.
Head Start is no longer referenced on the Westfield schools' website.
(Juniper Park Elementary School before the 2009 school year, Juniper Park ES was reduced to Kindergarten through 3rd Grade.
As of the 2015 16 school year, Juniper Park ES is no longer listed among Westfield schools' campuses; the link for Juniper Park ES now redirects to Russell Elementary School.) (Moseley Elementary School was closed before the 2009 school year.
Westfield High School Westfield Technical Academy The town/city is also home to Westfield State University.
The Westfield Athenaeum began in the 1860s. In fiscal year 2008, the town/city of Westfield spent 0.87% ($811,000) of its budget on its enhance library some $19 per person. The Westfield News Group LLC.
Publishers of The Westfield News, Penny - Saver, The Longmeadow News and The Enfield Press (CT)(Official website) The Massachusetts Turnpike crosses Westfield just north of the central company district.
About 3 miles (5 km) east of Westfield, the turnpike intersects I-91 which generally follows the Connecticut River Valley south to Springfield, Hartford and New Haven or north to Canada (Quebec).
Westfield's chief north-south thoroughfare is US 202/Route 10, which includes parts of Southwick Rd., S.
Silver St., Pleasant St., Court St., Broad St., Elm St., North Elm St., and Southampton Rd.
Route 187 also ends in Westfield.
Is the longest road in Westfield.
Main article: Great River Bridge (Westfield) A notable choke point for north/south travel is the Great River Bridge generally known as the "Green Bridge" over the Westfield River.
Currently (August 2007), there is an active universal to problematic a second bridge just to the east (downstream). The new bridge will be a similar through-truss bridge with two spans totaling 368 feet (112.2 m). After the second bridge is instead of the existing bridge will be refurbished; then each bridge will carry traffic in one direction.
The new bridge opened for traffic and the old one was closed for renovations on August 18, 2009.The old bridge reopened in July 2011, with each bridge carrying traffic in one direction. Westfield's Great River Bridge universal under construction, July 2010 Westfield is at the junction of the east-west Boston and Albany Railroad and a former north-south spur of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (now a rail trail south of the junction).
Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield has charter passenger services.
Rick Sullivan, current Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the former Mayor of Westfield a b "City of Westfield, Massachusetts".
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