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The Agawam Diner is an historic diner at 166 Newburyport Turnpike (U.S. Route 1) in Rowley, Massachusetts. It was manufactured in 1954 and moved to this location in 1970 after first being in Ipswich. It is the town's only diner and one of only six in the state manufactured by the Fodero Dining Car Company.
Roughly, area around the junction of Maple St. and Main and Granby Rds., including part of Water St. 42°03′54″N 72°51′49″W / 42.065°N 72.863611°W / 42.065; -72.863611 ( Granville Village Historic
Agawam's center began to take shape in the early years of the 18th century. By 1750 the town center lay on one of the main roads connecting Northampton to Hartford, Connecticut, and the area became a significant rest stop along the way. It received significant development in the 1790s when the road was more formally laid out, private homes ...
A model of the Duryea Brothers' first car sits in a tree-shaded park beside the historic location, amidst the restaurants and bars of the Club Quarter. Six Flags New England: located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Springfield's South End in Agawam, this amusement park is the largest in the Northeast and features a roller coaster, Superman the Ride.
Feeding Hills is a section of the city of Agawam, Massachusetts, United States, with its own ZIP Code (01030) and post office. Line Street in Agawam is generally accepted by residents as being the unofficial border. In the early to mid-19th century, a ditch was dug here to separate the two sections.
The modern-day Springfield metropolitan area was inhabited by the Agawam Indians. [8] The Agawam, as well as other groups, belong the larger cultural category of Alongkian Indians. In 1634, Dutch traders triggered a devastating smallpox epidemic in among the region's Native people. [8]
Agawam is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipalities that have applied for, and been granted, city forms of government but wish to retain "The town of" in their official names. [22] Agawam adopted a city form of government effective January 1, 1973, comprising a 15-member city council and a town manager.
The chain was founded in 1906 in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, by George Clinton Murphy. Murphy had gotten his start in retail as a manager of a McCrory's store in 1896. Murphy later moved to Detroit, Michigan, to manage several stores there, and then returned to the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area to launch his own stores ...