Springfield, Vermont Springfield, Vermont The Eureka Schoolhouse (1790), Vermont's earliest one-room school The Eureka Schoolhouse (1790), Vermont's earliest one-room school Flag of Springfield, Vermont Location in Windsor County and the state of Vermont.
Location in Windsor County and the state of Vermont.
Springfield, Vermont is positioned in the US Springfield, Vermont - Springfield, Vermont State Vermont Springfield is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
4.2 Springfield High School Springfield, 1915 The Springfield Theater premiere of The Simpsons Movie, 2007 Although Springfield's alluvial flats made it among the best agricultural suburbs in the state, the Black River falls, which drop 110 feet (33.5 m) in 1/8 of a mile (201 m), helped it precarious into a foundry town. Springfield was positioned in the center of the Precision Valley region, home of the Vermont machine tool industry.
In 1888, the Jones and Lamson Machine Tool Company (J&L) moved to Springfield from Windsor, Vermont under the prosperous leadership of James Hartness.
Springfield Telescope Makers, the earliest amateur telescope manufacturers' club in the United States, has been headquartered in Springfield since its inception in 1920.
During World War II, Springfield's manufacturing of machine tools was of such importance to the American war accomplishment that the US government ranked Springfield (together with the Cone at Windsor) as the seventh most meaningful bombing target in the country. Springfield is also home to the Eureka Schoolhouse, the earliest one-room school in the state of Vermont.
Completed in 1790, the building was in continuous use until 1900 and was restored in 1968 by the Vermont Board of Historic Sites.
The school home was titled by its first teacher, David Searle, who, after a long journey through the new frontier was heard to cry "Eureka!" upon reaching the new settlement of Springfield.
Several sites in Springfield, including the historic downtown area, have been designated as having historical significance as stated to the National Register of Historic Places.
On July 10, 2007, Springfield was chose to host the premiere of The Simpsons Movie, which, like the Simpsons TV show, is set in a town/city called Springfield.
In a Fox competition, Vermont was chosen to host the opening over 13 other places around the country called Springfield. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 49.5 square miles (128.1 km2), of which 49.3 square miles (127.7 km2) is territory and 0.2 square mile (0.4 km2) (0.30%) is water.
Bounded on the east by the Connecticut River, Springfield is drained by the Black River, which flows directly through downtown.
The town contains the village of North Springfield.
Springfield Art & Historical Society Springfield's enhance school fitness presently has two elementary schools, one middle school grades 6-8, and one high school grades 9-12.
These schools are overseen by a five-member school board voted for singly by staggered elections to three year terms.
In 2006 the enhance technical school, the River Valley Technical Center, left the Springfield School District to form its own district.
The Springfield School District is presently comprehensive action to renovate its elementary schools.
The School Board plans to grew Union Street School and Elm Hill School, while the voters decided in 2008 to cease using Park Street School as a school "As soon as possible" due to prohibitive refurbishment costs and safety issues.
The city's two enhance elementary schools are Elm Hill and Union Street Schools.
Riverside Middle School is the town's only enhance middle school (grades 6-8).
Springfield High School Springfield High School is Springfield's only high school.
The River Valley Technical Center is homed in the Howard Dean Education Center and is contiguous to Springfield High School.
The RVTC teaches technical courses to the pupils of Springfield and encircling towns of Chester, Bellows Falls, Westminster, Ludlow and Charlestown.
Springfield is home to chapters of the Community College of Vermont and the University of Vermont, which are homed in the Howard Dean Education Center.
Springfield is crossed by Interstate 91 (Exit 7 serves the town), U.S.
Route 5, Vermont Route 10, Vermont Route 11, Vermont Route 106 and Vermont Route 143.
Connecticut River Transit's the Current (CRT) provides Springfield with enhance transit by bus around town and to Bellows Falls, Ludlow and the White River Junction and Lebanon, New Hampshire areas.
Ruse Jr., Vermont State Treasurer Broehl, Jr., Precision Valley: The Machine Tool Companies of Springfield, Vermont.
Storrs Lee, The Green Mountains of Vermont (New York: Henry Hold & Company, Inc., 1949) p.76.
Historic Vermont "Vermont town voted Simpsons home".
The History of Springfield, Vermont 1885 1961.
History of the Town of Springfield, Vermont.
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