Westfield MA Contractor SEO in the Whip City

Westfield had 40,834 residents at the 2020 Census on about 46 square miles of land. First settled in 1660 and incorporated as a city in 1920, it sits where the Westfield River comes out of the Berkshire Hills and flows through the center of town toward the Connecticut River, joined downtown by the Little River. Westfield was once the center of the buggy whip industry, and it is still called the Whip City; the old United States Whip Company buildings still stand along the Little River off Elm Street. In 1939 it became the first city in New England to elect a woman mayor. Westfield State University, founded in 1838 as one of the country’s earliest public teachers’ colleges, is here, along with Baystate Noble Hospital, Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport, and the 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. The Massachusetts Turnpike runs through the city, the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail crosses downtown on an elevated section, and the 300-acre Stanley Park is a local landmark. City Hall is at 59 Court Street. For contractors, that means a large city with established neighborhoods, a historic downtown, and Western Massachusetts winters that keep heating and roofing calls coming.