* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

A 22 " Newtonian telescope | Newtonian reflector sits in front of the clubhouse at Stellafane, home of the Springfield Telescope Makers

In the United States in the early 1920s articles in Popular Astronomy by Russell W. Porter and in Scientific American by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers helped expand interest in the hobby.

* The Telescope Makers of Springfield, Vermont History at stellafane. com.

Stellafane ( Latin for shrine to the stars ) is the name of the clubhouse built by the Springfield Telescope Makers club of Springfield, Vermont in the early 1920s, and has since come to refer to the club's land and buildings on the summit of Breezy Hill.

Stellafane is still the location where the Springfield Telescope Makers hold most of their meetings.

It was started by Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers in 1926, as an occasion for some 20 amateur telescope makers to compare telescopes and exchange ideas.

* Albert Graham Ingalls, Scientific American editor who wrote stories about Russell W. Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers

* Russell W. Porter, founder of the Springfield Telescope Makers

The members of this small group decided to form an astronomical club and December 7, 1923 was the first meeting of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

The Springfield Telescope Makers invited other groups of stargazers to their clubhouse in 1926, to compare telescopes and exchange ideas.

In 1925 Albert G. Ingalls featured Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers in two articles he wrote for Scientific American magazine.

* The Telescope Makers of Springfield, Vermont A 1923 article by Porter

Clancy Wiggum, more commonly known as ' Chief Wiggum ', grew up in Springfield, but is originally from Ireland and was among the same class and age group as Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Barney Gumble, and Marge Simpson ( née Bouvier ).

Frank grew up in Pawnee although he was born in Springfield, Illinois.

( The neighboring town of Springfield grew at a higher percentage rate, due to a smaller overall population.

The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and grew up around Swarthmore College, which was founded in 1864.

Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy ( née Magee ) and Allen Richard Turner, a U. S. Foreign Service officer who grew up in China ( where Turner's great-grandfather had been a Methodist Christian missionary ).

Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States ,.

Manchester grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois and graduated from The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut.

Kochalka grew up in Springfield, Vermont.

Stone grew up listening to a wide variety of music including 1960s and 1970s American R & B and soul music performed by such artists as Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin.

He was born and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts.

In the nineteenth century, as Catholicism grew exponentially in New England, the Diocese of Boston was carved into smaller new dioceses: on November 28, 1843, Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Hartford ; Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Burlington and the Diocese of Portland on July 29, 1853, the Diocese of Springfield on June 14, 1870, and the Diocese of Providence on February 16, 1872.

Sara Groves ( born Sara Lee Colbaugh, September 10, 1972 in Vineland, New Jersey, grew up in Springfield, Missouri, resides in Burnsville, Minnesota ) is an American Contemporary Christian singer, record producer, and author.

The company grew and built new plants to meet the needs of the growing city of Springfield and its surrounding areas.

Flynn grew up in Agawam, MA and attended Cathedral High School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was a letterman and a standout in football, basketball, and baseball.

Scully grew up in West Springfield, Massachusetts and long had an interest in writing.

Scully was born October 2, 1956 at Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Massachusetts and grew up in the Merrick section of West Springfield.

This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops.

Originally, the album was to be produced by Botnick and Neil Young, but Young bowed out due to his commitments to Buffalo Springfield.

Its writers, Jim Dale and Tom Springfield, were nominated for the 1966 Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost out to the title song from the film Born Free.

However, because of retconning, in " Springfield Up " she can be seen as a student running through the background at Springfield High School while eventual cop Chief Wiggum is being filmed, as part of the documentary featured in that episode, carrying out his duties as a hall monitor.

He frequently takes overseas vacations, which take him out of town for extended periods of time, leading to the headline " Mayor Visits City " in the Springfield Shopper.

However, a heat wave hit Springfield at that exact moment, driving them both out of business.

" In " The Joy of Sect ", the episode in which the whole town of Springfield is deceived into joining a cult, Lovejoy kidnaps Homer with Groundskeeper Willie from the cult and violently hits him across the head numerous times hoping to knock him out.

As well as the above, some interesting quirks of the character include rather unusual ingenuity in his job such as: using police hang gliders, riding an ostrich, speaking hippie tongue, and using loud music to flush Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel out of Springfield Elementary ( albeit with a poorly chosen song ) to which they locked down to name a few.

Being situated at the terminus of the railroad, military wagon trains went out from Rolla to all Union armies stationed southwest in Arkansas, Hartville, and Springfield and northwest to the Linn Creek area, now known as Lake of the Ozarks.

Majority of the people in Mountain Home fly out of Springfield MO, Branson MO, Little Rock, AR or Bentonville, AR.

For over-the-air television, Eureka Springs is served by the market based out of Springfield, Missouri.

Unlike much of Bay County, Springfield has been mostly left out of the recent real estate boom, possibly due to the large and odoriferous chemical mill and paper plant on the city's waterfront.

McLean was laid out when the Alton and Springfield Railroad, soon to become the Alton Railroad, was first built through McLean County.

The land on which Sykesville sits started out as part of the Springfield Estate, owned by wealthy Baltimore shipbuilder William Patterson.

Browns Mills ( 2010 Census population of 11, 223 ), Country Lake Estates ( 3, 943 as of 2010 ), Pemberton Heights ( 2, 423 as of 2010 ) and Presidential Lakes Estates ( 2, 365 as of 2010 ) are census-designated places and are located within Pemberton Township, while Fort Dix ( 1, 765 out of a total population of 7, 716 as of 2010 ) is a CDP located in parts of Pemberton Township, New Hanover Township and Springfield Township.

Springfield beat out the village of New Boston as the county seat in 1818. by two votes in the state legislature.

It evolved out of the psychedelia-influenced folk rock of British acts such as Donovan, The Incredible String Band, and Tyrannosaurus Rex, but was also heavily influenced by such American folk rock bands as The Byrds, Love, and Buffalo Springfield.

Band member Richie Furay said, " When the Buffalo Springfield Roller Company found out we were using their name, they wrote back and said, ' Hey, really glad to see the name.

Larry announces that they should have a party and the episode ends with the people of Springfield dancing outside the movie theater, with music and drinks coming out from nowhere, all to the sound of Journey's " Any Way You Want It ".

The need for an enhanced military role took on some urgency in 1786 when Shays ' Rebellion broke out in Massachusetts, threatening the Springfield Armory.

Springfield, Massachusetts — the " shire town " for which Hampden County was initially carved out of Hampshire County in 1814 — is located in southern Hampden County, at a natural crossroads where three significant rivers flow into Connecticut River, ( the Westfield, the Chicopee, and the Mill.

Curtis reestablished his supply lines at Helena, Arkansas, on the Mississippi River and ordered his subordinate, General John M. Schofield at Springfield, Missouri, to drive Confederate forces out of southwestern Missouri and invade northwestern Arkansas.

The river originates in the highest part of Boston Mountains of the Ozarks, flows out onto the Springfield Plateau near the historic community of Erbie, and finally crosses the Salem Plateau just before joining the White River.

In 1844, in Springfield, the process was sufficiently perfected that Goodyear felt it safe to take out a patent.