Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, United States. Westfield was first settled by Europeans in 1660. It is allowance of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 40,834 at the 2020 census.

The Place was originally inhabited by the Pocomtuc, and was called Woronoco (meaning “the winding land”). Trading houses were built in 1639 to 1640 by European settlers from the Connecticut Colony. Massachusetts asserted jurisdiction, and prevailed after a boundary survey. In 1647, Massachusetts made Woronoco part of Springfield. Land was “incrementally purchased from the Native Americans and decided by the Springfield town meeting to English settlers, beginning in 1658.” The Place of Woronoco or “Streamfield” began to be permanently settled in the 1660s. In 1669, “Westfield” was incorporated as an independent town; in 1920, it would be re-incorporated as a city. The say Westfield would be named for visceral at the era the most westerly settlement. “Streamfield” was considered a declare for the town for being settled in together with two “streams” that flow downtown, the Westfield River and the Little River.

From its founding until 1725, Westfield was the westernmost harmony in the Massachusetts Colony, and portions of it fell within the Equivalent Lands. Town meetings were held in a church meeting house until 1839, when Town Hall was erected upon Broad Street. This building moreover served as City Hall from 1920 to 1958. Due to its alluvial lands, the inhabitants of the Westfield Place were utterly devoted to agricultural pursuits for approximately 150 years.

Early in the 19th century, the produce of bricks, whips, and cigars became economically important. At one lessening in the 19th century, Westfield was a prominent center of the buggy whip industry, and the city is yet known as the “Whip City”. Other firms produced bicycles, paper products, pipe organs, boilers and radiators, textile machinery, abrasives, wood products, and truthfulness tools. Westfield transformed itself from an agricultural town into a flourishing industrial city in the 19th century, but in the second half of the 20th century its manufacturing base was eroded by wage competition in the U.S. Southeast, then overseas.