Editing Springfield, Minnesota (section)

==History==
[[Jackson, Minnesota]] was originally platted with the name Springfield in 1856.

Springfield was originally [[plat]]ted in 1877 with the name of "Burns" when the [[Chicago and North Western Railway]] extended a line to the settlement.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n87 68]}}</ref> It was renamed in 1881 after either [[Springfield, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA126|year=1908|page=126}}</ref> or a nearby spring.<ref>{{cite book|last=Upham|first=Warren|title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance|url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog|year=1920|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n90 71]}}</ref><ref name=WPA>{{cite book |author=<!--The Federal Writer's Project--> |orig-date=1938|date=1985 |title=WPA Guide to Minnesota |url= |publisher=[[Minnesota Historical Society]]|location=[[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] |pages=405 |isbn=0873517121}}</ref>

In 1890 Adolph Casimir Ochs established the Ochs Brick and Tile Company in Springfield and Heron Lake. It remains in Operation today. The Sanborn Company remains in Springfield.

Springfield has three [[Lutheran]] Churches as well as a [[Catholic]] and [[United Methodist]]. The town still retains active rail service from the [[Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad]] a [[subsidiary]] of the [[Canadian Pacific]].

Twelve miles south of town on County Road 2 is the [[Jeffers Petroglyphs]] State Park