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Springfield, city, seat (1833) of Greene county, southwestern Missouri, U.S., near the
James River, at the northern edge of the Ozark Highlands, north of the Table Rock Lake
area. Settled in 1829, its growth was slow until the period of heavy westward migration,
when pioneers were attracted by its location on important land routes. During the
American Civil War the city was held for a few months by Confederate forces after the
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