In the 201-year history of Springfield, the city has been home to a future U.S. president, the founder of the Post cereal company, the president of Sears, three U.S. senators, three state governors ...

With the passing of John Patrick O’Connor on Dec. 17, 2025, Western Massachusetts lost one of its more prolific and beloved genealogists. John was a volunteer at the Local History & Genealogy Library ...

A Black activist of Springfield’s past has greeted people coming downtown since last fall, and it serves as just one example of ongoing efforts to tell the stories and remember Black leaders of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1831 Joseph Rountree and family and Sidney S. Ingram, his ...

Sankofa is an African word which held deep meaning for the late LuJuana Hood. As she interpreted it, the word carried a message, “You must know your history to develop a better future.” These words ...

What does "home" mean to you? To strike up conversations about housing types, what "home" feels like, who has access to housing and what the history of housing in Springfield has looked like since ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1870 The Mansfield Opera House at 313-315 South Street was ...