The New Student's Reference Work/Springfield, Mo.

Springfield, Mo., a city in southwestern Missouri. It is built on a table-land 1,500 feet higher than St. Louis, and has an important trade. There are flouring-mills and wagon-factories. Drury College was founded here in 1873. Springfield was a trading-post in 1820, and incorporated in 1830; it has two great railroad-plants, one for the Kansas City and Memphis, and one for the St. Louis and San Francisco system. During the Civil War it was held by Federal and by Confederate forces in succession, and the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought near the city, Aug. 10, 1861. Population 35,201.