Westfield State University (commonly known as Westfield State) is a public university in Westfield, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1839 by Horace Mann as the first public coeducational college in America.
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Stanley Park is a non-profit privately owned park including an arboretum and botanical garden, located in Westfield, Massachusetts. It is open to the public daily without charge from May to November. Although the park is closed during the winter, people can still enter the park at their own risk. The duck pond area is monitored 24/7 with three security cameras, which are accessible on the park's websites.
Stanley Park was founded by Frank Stanley Beveridge in 1949. The park began on a 25-acre plot, but now spans 300 acres with multiple gardens, trails, and playing fields. It is a short walking distance from Westfield State University, located across Western Avenue to the northwest from Stanley Park.
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The Westfield Starfires are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Westfield, Massachusetts. They play in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, a wood-bat league with a 56-game regular season comprising eight teams from northern Vermont to western Connecticut. The team, owned by Chris Thompson, plays its home games at Bullens Field in Westfield.
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Billy Bullens Field is a multipurpose stadium in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Bullens Field is the baseball and football home field for Westfield High School and Westfield Technical Academy.
Bullens Field is also the home field for the Westfield Starfires of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
Originally named Municipal Field, the stadium was built in 1937, and officially dedicated in 1938, as part of a larger project of ball fields, grandstands, a playground and tennis courts constructed by the Works Progress Administration.
Billy Bullens was the assistant supervisor of the new facilities and in charge of the park maintenance for many years.
The field was renamed for him in the early 1980s.
Bullens Field hosted the Babe Ruth 14-Year-Old World Series in 2016 and the Babe Ruth 13-Year-Old World Series in August 2019.
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Westfield Technical Academy is a technical, coeducational, four-year public high school, part of the Westfield Public Schools district in Westfield, Massachusetts, United States. The school opened as the Westfield Independent Industrial School on October 1, 1911.
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The Joseph Dewey House is a historic house museum at 87 South Maple Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. Built about 1735, it is one of the city's few surviving pre-Revolutionary buildings. It is now maintained as a museum property by the local historical society. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.