| While number of sources in the Local History and Genealogy Department
make reference to this particular nickname of Springfield, there is no definite
single origin to the term.
George Escott's "History
and Directory of Springfield and North Springfield", page 117, quotes
a letter from 1876, " Will you come to our beautiful Queen City of the Ozarks?"
"American
Nicknames" by George E. Shankle quotes from "Seeing the Middle West,"
by John T. Faris "Springfield, standing in all of the splendor of a queen
amidst its spacious orchards of stately fruit trees, has been fittingly designated
the Queen City."
"Springfield
the Beautiful", published in 1906, uses the nickname on the cover page.
The Springfield Patriot-Advertiser, 28 December 1876, Page 2 "Springfield
Sits Quietly, peacefully, and prosperously on the summit of the Ozarks, as a royal
diadem on the brow of a queen.
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