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During Springfield's resurgence in the new millennium, prominent architects – like Moshe Safdie, who built the $57 million, 2008 U.S. Federal Court Building; Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, who built the $47 million, 2004 Basketball Hall of Fame; and TRO Jung Brannen, who are building the $110 million, 2012 adaptive reuse of Springfield's ...
View of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River c. 1840–1845, by Thomas Chambers. Springfield was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon as "Agawam Plantation" under the administration of the Connecticut Colony.
The modern-day Springfield metropolitan area was inhabited by the Agawam Indians. [4] The Agawam, as well as other groups, belong to the larger cultural category of Alongkian Indians. In 1634, a devastating plague, probably smallpox, reduced the Native American population of the Connecticut River Valley to a tiny percentage of its previous size.
Agawam is located in the Eighth Massachusetts Governor's Council district and is represented by Tara Jacobs. [24] On the federal level, Agawam is part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, represented by Richard Neal; it is represented in the United States Senate by Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren.
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) is a private foundation established in 1993 and located in Agawam, Massachusetts. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization charitable organization [ 2 ] with the goal of "enhancing Jewish and community life in Western Massachusetts , North America , Israel , and beyond."
The Agawam were an Algonquian Native American people inhabiting the coast of New England encountered by English colonists who arrived in the early 17th century. [1] Decimated by pestilence [ which? ] shortly before the English colonization and fearing attacks from their hereditary enemies among the Abenaki and other tribes of present-day Maine ...
Hampden Charter School of Science West District (CC, West Springfield, 6–12, serving the Agawam, Holyoke, West Springfield and Westfield school districts) Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public District (CC, Boston , 6–8, serving the Boston school district)
The Springfield metropolitan area, also known as Greater Springfield, is a region that is socio-economically and culturally tied to the City of Springfield, Massachusetts. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget defines the Springfield, MA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as consisting of three counties in Western Massachusetts .