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Westfield Academy Marker is a historic marker located at Broad St in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. Built in 1900. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Westfield Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Westfield Academy Marker is a historical marker in Westfield, Hampden County. It is one of 129 historical markers documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.1198, -72.7484 near Westfield. The nearest cataloged historic site is Town Hall Marker, Old (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Westfield Town Hall, Westfield Vietnam War Monument, and Park Square - Shepard, General Monument.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This marker on Broad Street in Westfield commemorates Westfield Academy, an early secondary school in the town later associated with the founding of a state normal school. Recorded as dating to about 1900, it is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district.
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