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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.
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 commission was replaced in 1919 by the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW), which became the main state agency overseeing all aspects of road construction and maintenance. [6] The DPW was renamed the Massachusetts Highway Department in 1991.
Longmeadow Historic District; Longmeadow Street–North Historic District This page was last edited on 21 April 2023, at 16:03 (UTC). Text is ...
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.
The town had a mainly agricultural focus well into the 20th century, the bottomlands of the Connecticut River (which forms the town's western boundary) proving extremely fertile and giving the town its name. Longmeadow Street, located on a terrace above that plain, was from an early date the principal north-south route on the east side of the ...
Map of locations by per capita income. Areas with higher levels of income are shaded darker. Massachusetts is the second wealthiest state in the United States of America, with a median household income of $89,026 (as of 2021), [1] and a per capita income of $48,617 (as of 2021). [2]
The lower half of the Shield is the "Red House" (on the green) built in 1734, symbolical of the many 18th century homes now standing as part of our heritage. Longmeadow was first settled in 1644 and it was the first community to be incorporated into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts immediately following the Revolutionary War in 1783.