SPRINGFIELD, a city and county-seat
of Green co., Mo.; on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and the St. Louis and San Francisco railroads; 130 miles S. of Jefferson City. It is on the summit of the Ozark Mountains in a rich lead and zinc section, and has a healthful climate. There are Drury College (Cong.), a normal school, high school. United States Government
street railroad and electric light
plants, St. John's Hospital, National and
Confederate cemeteries, National and
State banks, and daily and weekly
newspapers. It has two extensive railroad
shops, wagon and carriage factories, a
foundry and iron works, and other
industrial plants. In the early part of the
Civil War several battles occurred in the
city and vicinity, in one of which (known
as the battle of Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861), the Federal general, Nathaniel Lyon, was defeated and killed. Pop. (1910) 35,201; (1920) 39,631.