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The commercial center of town is an area called "The Longmeadow Shops" [citation needed], including restaurants and clothing stores. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 9.7 square miles (25.0 km 2 ), of which 9.1 square miles (23.6 km 2 ) are land and 0.50 square miles (1.3 km 2 ), or 5.34%, are water.
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
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.
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
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.
Springfield grew at a pace far quicker than Northampton, so was granted shire town-status over its own southerly jurisdiction. [2] The southern division of Hampshire County was separated as Hampden County on August 1, 1812, by a prior act of the Massachusetts General Court on February 25, 1812, with Springfield named as the shire town.
Open town meeting is the form of town meeting in which all registered voters of a town are eligible to vote, together acting as the town's legislature. Town Meeting is typically held annually in the spring, often over the course of several evenings, but there is also provision to call additional special meetings.
In 1713, the town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, had been granted precinct status and separated physically and politically from Springfield, Massachusetts. In addition, by the spring of 1714, Longmeadow had a population of nearly 40 families and petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for the establishment of a meetinghouse. Williams was ...