City of Springfield

I-91 / I-291 / I-90 Mass Pike / CT-15 Wilbur Cross

Massachusetts's third-largest city (after Boston and Worcester) and the cultural and economic hub of Western Massachusetts. Springfield contains downtown (Court Square, the MassMutual Center, the Basketball Hall of Fame — honoring Dr. James Naismith who invented basketball in Springfield in 1891 at the YMCA International Training School), the Springfield Armory National Historic Site (the first US armory, 1777, which developed interchangeable-parts manufacturing and the Springfield rifle), the Quadrangle museum district (the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden — Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield in 1904), the Springfield Museums, Forest Park, the MGM Springfield casino and resort, and neighborhoods from Forest Park to Sixteen Acres to Mason Square.