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Willie Ross School for the Deaf

Willie Ross School for the Deaf is at 32 Norway Street. This is the former Norway Street Elementary School. This school was made in 1915.

In 1967 the Ross School opened.

EXTERNAL WEB SITE

Clarke School for the Deaf Historic District

Clarke School for the Deaf is from 1867. It is at 40-54 Round Hill Road.

Rogers Hall 1820

Gardiner Green Hubbard Hall 1912

Galbraith Center 1965

Gawith Hall 1871

Skinner Hall 1932

Coolidge Hall 1933

Helen Hills Hills Chapel

Helen Hills Hills Chapel

External LINK to its history and HERE

1955

Saint Johns Episcopal Church

Saint Johns Episcopal Church was at first on Bridge Street near Market Street from 1829 to 1893. The congregation started in 1826. In 1893 this new church was built on Elm Street.

Blunt Park

Blunt Park serves McKnight, Bay, and Pine Point. Current amenities include an ice rink and a pool. Blunt Park was made in 1928. The front of the park used to be part of the almshouse.

Stanhope Blunt

Bay Path Cemetery

Springfield Central High School

Ellis Elementary School

Edgewood Park – a residential neighborhood

Isolation Hospital and later City Health Department – earlier between 1870 to 1930 the City Farm and the Almshouse were here.

Bay Path Cemetery is the almshouse cemetery and was the city farm cemetery. It is the potters field of Springfield and that is one of its many names – Springfield Potters Field. It is also called the City Farm Cemetery and the Almshouse Burial Ground. It is on Blunt Park Road close to Roosevelt Avenue or in other words close to the entrance of the park. The burial ground is in the park itself. It started about 1873 and ended most burials in 1930. This is since the almshouse was taken down then but also since cremations of paupers became more common. In 1926 the name was changed to Bay Path Cemetery. The cemetery was finally dedicated as such in 1933 (June 7).

Death certificate will read death at the City Home Hospital and burial at the Almshouse. Hospital was at 1400 State Street. There are numbered pins (from the year 1932). in this cemetery but no gravestone inscriptions. There are 896 burials here. Last burial was in 1951 and cemetery closed in 1954. It started in the aforementioned year since in 1873 the Almshouse and Farm opened. The first burial here was on December 12 1873. Some of the burials made before 1875 were outside the area of the city farm and these were soon moved to within the burials ground. There are three crypts within the cemetery where stillborn babies have been placed. Each of these crypts can hold 1000 burials.

In 1981, a new gate, crypt cover, sign, and 10 trees were added.

FINDAGRAVE

Warren Chandler

Bay Path Cemetery

1873 – 1954

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

For Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

Matt. 5:3

Rededicated 1981 Springfield Historical Society

Gate of Heaven Cemetery

Gate of Heaven Cemetery is from 1971.

GATES

cemetery map

Gates

Mausoleum Chapel

Administration

Priests Section

Bishop Norbert Dorsey

Fr Frederick Corcoran

LAND

Michael John Schiavina

Baby Section

Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church

Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church is from 1963.

Rectory

Maplewood Cemetery

Maplewood Cemetery FINDAGRAVE is from 1816. The first name was Sixteen Acres Cemetery. The cemetery was added to in 1882. This is most likely the oldest cemetery in the city that was never moved. There once was a hearse house in its southeasterly corner. A hearse was used from the 1882 era to 1908.