Longmeadow

Town in Hampden County, southwestern Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River, at the Connecticut border; population (1998 est) 14,700. It is a largely residential suburb of Springfield and Hartford.

The area was purchased as common land by William Pynchon from local American Indians in 1636, and has many historic houses. Its name is a translation of its American Indian name, Masacksic.

There was little industry here, mainly buttons and thimbles, although quarrying was also important.