Editing Agawam, Massachusetts (section)

==Historical commercial operations==
1801 – E. Porter Peppermint [[distillation|distillery]], later to become the "Agawam Gin" distillery.

1810 – A cotton mill was erected on the site of present-day [[Six Flags New England]].

1812 – Agawam Woolen Mill was established on Elm Street.  After a fire, the building was rebuilt in brick in 1889 and still exists. The Agawam Woolen Company folded in 1949.

[[Six Flags New England]], formerly Riverside Amusement Park, began as a picnic grove as early as 1840. It became a full-fledged [[amusement park]] in 1940.  [[Riverside Park Speedway]], a [[NASCAR]] racing track, was part of Riverside park from 1948 to 2000. Riverside was sold to Six Flags in 1996.

1952 – Stacy Machine Co, came to a new plant located on Main St, is best known for producing specialized printing presses. Later known as Kidder-Stacy, the plant closed in the 1990s, but the Main St plant still stands.

1953 – [[WWLP]] an [[NBC]] affiliate television station began operation with studios and transmitting facilities on Provin Mountain in Feeding Hills.