Springfield Armory
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The Springfield Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Springfield located in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, was the primary center for the manufacture of United States military firearms from 1777 until its closing in 1968. It was the first federal armory and one of the first factories in the United States dedicated to the manufacture of weapons. The site is preserved as the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Western Massachusetts' only unit of the national park system. It features the world's largest collection of historic American firearms.
The clocktower of the Main Arsenal building, built in 1847
Shays' rebel forces, attempting to overtake the armory, flee from the state militia as grape shot is fired from artillery
Conflagration of Part of the US Armory, Springfield, Mass. March 2nd, 1824
An "Organ of Muskets", in total the racks in the arsenal contain 647 Model 1861 rifles, with capacity to hold 1,100 when fully stocked; these racks are so-called "organs" as they were described as such in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's lamentations against the wastes of war in his poem "The Arsenal at Springfield"
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the 3rd most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the 4th most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts, had a population of 699,162 in 2020.
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