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SPRINGFIELD , a city and the county-seat of Clark
Ohio
Detroit
valley of Lagonda Creek, but from here the city has spread SPRUCE, i.e. spruce-fir, a coniferous tree belonging to the over the higher and more undulating surface farther back ' genus Picea, of which there are several species, such as the Norway until it occupies an area of about 82 sq. m. Among the public spruce, Picea excelsa; the black spruce, Picea nigra, &c. (see FIR). buildings are the United States government building, the The name has a curious origin, which explains also the particular Clark
house
volumes, the city hospital
work
acres, and in 1908 the city adopted plans for an extensive park system. Ferncliff cemetery is a picturesque burial-ground. On a hill on the north side of the city is Wittenberg College (Lutheran; 1845), which in 1909 had 35 instructors and 710 students. Springfield is in a productive farming region, and water power is provided by Lagonda Creek, so that manufactures closely related to agriculture have always been prominent. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $13,654,423, of which $4,051,167 was the value of agricultural implements, $2,914,493 of foundry and machine-shop products, and $1,025,244 of flour and grist-mill products. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks. Natural gas is piped from Fairfield county. In 1799 Simon Kenton and a small party from Kentucky built a fort and fourteen cabins near Mad river 3 or 4 M. beyond the present western limits of the city. Later in the same year James Demint built a cabin on a hill-side over-looking Lagonda Creek. In 18or he engaged a surveyor to plat a town here and soon after this the site of the Kenton settlement was abandoned. The new town was near the border-line that had been fixed between the Whites and the Indians, and the latter threatened trouble until 1807, when in a council held on a large hill in the vicinity, at which Tecumseh was the principal speaker for the Indians, peace was more firmly established. In 1818, when Clark county was erected, Springfield was made the county-seat. It was incorporated as a town in 1827, and in 185o it was chartered as a city. See E. S. Todd, A Sociological Study of Clark County, Ohio
Spring -field, 1904).SPRING -GUN, a device formerly in use against poachers and trespassers. Wires were attached to the trigger of a gun in such a manner that any one stumbling over or treading on them would discharge it and wound himself. Since 1827 spring-guns and all man-traps are illegal in England, except within a house
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