Editing Springfield, Massachusetts (section)

=== Prehistory ===
The area that would become Springfield was historically inhabited by indigenous people, with documented middle archaic period sites, a ceramic workshop site from the Woodland period in south Springfield, and the contact period Long Hill site, excavated in 1895.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Massachusetts Historical Commission |title=Historical & Archaeological Resources of the Connecticut River Valley: A Framework for Preservation Decisions |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcpdf/regionalreports/ctvalley.pdf |access-date=February 28, 2024}}</ref>

At the time of European contact at settlement, the Springfield area was inhabited by the Agawam tribe, who sold land to English settlers.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Springfield, MA - Our Plural History |url=https://ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu/firstpeoples/agawamnonotuck.html |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=ourpluralhistory.stcc.edu}}</ref>