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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. |
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