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Granville was first settled by English colonists in 1736 and was officially incorporated in 1754, after the end of the Indian wars in 1750. Early settlers could get a 100-acre (0.40 km 2) lot for free, providing they built a house and "put four acres in English hay".
The Longmeadow public school system operates six schools. Blueberry Hill School, Center School, and Wolf Swamp Road School are K−5 elementary schools. Williams Middle School and Glenbrook Middle School serve grades 6–8. Longmeadow High School serves all students in the town between grades 9 and 12. The town's elementary schools have been ...
East Longmeadow is a town [1] in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, situated in the Pioneer Valley region of Western Massachusetts. It had a population of 16,430 at the 2020 census. [2] East Longmeadow is 5 mi (8.0 km) southeast of downtown Springfield, part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.
US 5 stays very close to the Connecticut River and I-91.It enters the state at the town of Longmeadow on the east bank of the river going up to Springfield.In Springfield, US 5 then overlaps with I-91 for about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) and then separates as its own freeway crossing the Connecticut River on the South End Bridge into Agawam.
Longmeadow's village green was laid out in the early 18th century, and it is the area around which the town center developed. It is located on a sandy ridge on a terrace about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Connecticut River , with a flood plain in between that now also carries Interstate 91 .
The road continues north across the state line as Shaker Road towards the town center of Longmeadow. After 1.7 miles (2.7 km), Route 192 turns west onto Williams Street until it ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 5. Route 192 is a two-lane secondary road for its entire length. [1]
Route 83 continues northwest, and crosses the Massachusetts state line into East Longmeadow. [1] In East Longmeadow, it proceeds north as Somers Road until a complex seven-way intersection (the East Longmeadow Rotary) that involves Route 186 and Route 220 among other roads. Beyond the Rotary, Route 83 continues northwest through East Longmeadow ...
The Elijah Burt House is located south of the center of East Longmeadow, on the north side of Chestnut Street roughly midway between Shaker Road and Prospect Street. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a central chimney.