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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHICOPEE

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 131 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHICOPEE , a city of
Hampden
  county,
Massachusetts
 , U.S.A., situated on the E. side of the Connecticut river, at the mouth of the Chicopee river, immediately N. of
Springfield
 . Pop. (1890) 14,050; (1900) 19,167, of whom 8139 were foreign-born; (191o, census) 25,401. Chicopee is served by the Boston & Maine railway. The city, which has an area of about 25 sq. m., contains five villages; Chicopee Center, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Fairview and Aldenville. Chicopee Falls lies on both sides of the Chicopee river, which falls some 70 ft. in less than 3 M. and furnishes valuable power for manufactories. The most important products are
cotton
  goods (two large factories having, together, about 200,000 spindles), fire-arms (especially the Stevens rifles), tools, rubber and elastic goods, sporting goods, swords, automobiles and agricultural implements. Here, too, is a bronze statuary foundry, in which some of the finest monuments, bronze doors, &c., in the country have been cast, including the doors of the Capitol at Washington. The bronze casting industry here was founded by Nathan Peabody
Ames
  (1803-1847), who was first a sword-maker and in 1836 began the manufacture of cannon and church bells. The total value of the city's factory product in 1905 was '$7,715,653, an increase of 43.2 % in five years. There is a public library. The municipality owns and operates the water-works
system
  and the electric lighting plant. Chicopee was settled about 1638, was set off from
Springfield
  as an independent township in 1848, and was chartered as a city in 1890. Chicopee Falls was thehome of
Edward
 
Bellamy
 . The name of the city is an Indian word meaning "
cedar
 -tree " or " birch-bark place."


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