Place:Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

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NameLongmeadow
Alt namesMasacksicksource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS25001821
TypeTown
Coordinates42.05°N 72.583°W
Located inHampden, Massachusetts, United States     (1644 - )
Also located inSpringfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States     (1644 - 1783)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Longmeadow Cemetery
Inhabited place
East Longmeadow ( 1783 - 1894 )
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Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 15,853 at the 2020 census.

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History

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Longmeadow was first settled in 1644, and officially incorporated October 17, 1783. The town was originally farmland within the limits of Springfield. It remained relatively pastoral until the street railway was built , when the population tripled over a fifteen-year period. After Interstate 91 was built in the wetlands on the west side of town, population tripled again between 1960 and 1975.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Longmeadow was best known as the site from which Longmeadow brownstone was mined. Several famous American buildings, including Princeton University's Neo-Gothic library, are made of Longmeadow brownstone. In 1894, the more populous and industrialized "East Village" portion of the town containing the brownstone quarries split off to become East Longmeadow.

Designed by famed golf course architect Donald Ross in 1922, the Longmeadow Country Club was the proving ground for golf equipment designed and manufactured by the Spalding Co. of Chicopee. Bobby Jones, a consultant for Spalding, was a member in standing at LCC and made a number of his instructional films at LCC in the 1930s.

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