Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

422 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-18S6.
Springfield Locks and Canal Company were supplying water-power to
the mills at Cabotville. The Cabot Company had built a new mill.
N. P. Ames's edge-tool factory had put its golden sword on the cupola,
and Mr. Chapin, the stage man, was putting up a hotel there.
At the United States armory, the residences of the paymaster and
master armorer were going up, as well as a new factory building at
the water-shops. The frame of the new Congregational church (Rev.
Mr. Baldwin), on the hill, had been raised. Real estate was, how-
ever, stagnant here in the village, although two purchases, in 1834,
gave new life to speculation. Col. Galen Ames bought, for $1,740,
the old Jonathan Dwight place (Whitney & Adams), with the
avowed intention of building an elegant block, and- James Byers
secured, for $6,000, the Daniel Lombard property. The contract for
blocks on both of these sites were given to Goodman & Gorham.
In the autumn the post-office was moved from the "uncomfortable
little coop" to Mr. Byers's building "opposite court square," on
Elm street, and there was a i-eading-room above. We add the cen-
sus for 1835 by school districts : Willimansett, 242 ; Chicopee, 281 ;
Paper Mill, 163 ; Lower Chicopee, 220 ; Skipmuck, 133 ; Sixteen
Acres, 138 ; North End, 298 ; Centre, 1,675 ; Long Hill, 425 ; South
Hill Road, 116 ; Armory
Hill, 1,034; Carlisle, 95 ; Upper Water-
shops, 437 ; North Side Chicopee River, 58 ; Next to Granby, 13 ;
Chicopee Factories, 1,356; Five-Mile House, 118; Ames's, 255;
Cabot\-ille, 915; Jenksville, 197; United States Grounds, 242;
total, 8,411.
There were at this time in Springfield seventy-three mechanic
shops, six cotton factories, three paper-mills, four printing-offices,
thirteen warehouses, two card factories, one rifle factory, six saw-
mills, four grist-mills, one powder-mill, three tanneries, two joiners'
tool factories, two forges, one sword factory, and one spool factory.
In the spring of 1836 the Colonel Worthington homestead (Bridge
and Main streets), which in 1835 brought $3,500, sold for $12,500 to
Charles Stearns. When Worthington street was opened, in 1839, from