[4] One of the New Hampshire grants, the township was chartered on August 20, 1761, by Governor Benning Wentworth and awarded to Gideon Lyman and 61 others.

[5] Springfield was located in the center of the Precision Valley region, home of the Vermont machine tool industry.

In 1888, the Jones and Lamson Machine Tool Company (J&L) moved to Springfield from Windsor, Vermont under the successful leadership of James Hartness.

The club's pink clubhouse at the Stellafane Observatory was built in 1923 on Breezy Hill, just south of Springfield village, and has hosted an annual convention for astronomers and telescope makers nearly every summer since 1926.

Many notable figures in the fields of astronomy and space exploration have attended the convention over the years.

During World War II, Springfield's production of machine tools was of such importance to the American war effort that the US government ranked Springfield (together with the Cone Automatic Machine Company of nearby Windsor) as the seventh most important bombing target in the country.

[6] Springfield is also home to the Eureka Schoolhouse, the oldest one-room school in the state of Vermont.

The school house was named by its first teacher, David Searle, who, after a long journey through the new frontier was heard to cry "Eureka!"

In a Fox competition, Vermont was chosen to host the opening for over 13 other places around the nation called Springfield.

The RVTC teaches technical courses to the students of Springfield and surrounding towns of Chester, Bellows Falls, Westminster, Ludlow and Charlestown.

The closest Greyhound bus and Amtrak train station is located in Bellows Falls, approximately 10 miles (16 km) to the south.

[12] The Black River Innovation Campus (BRIC) is in the center of Springfield, currently residing in a large brick building that once served as a school.

BRIC offers co-working space, entrepreneurship programs, STEAM education, and technology resources.