 Historical texts often state that the Chicopee River flows into the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts; however, in 1848, the City of Chicopee was carved out of Springfield's northern neighborhoods.Essentially, certain factions that opposed Springfield becoming a chartered city, and adopting the mayoral-style government such a change would entail, hatched the plan to create Chicopee with the idea of slicing off 2/5 of Springfield's population, thereby making it a place with too few people to become a legally chartered city.The plan succeeded and thus, from Springfield, came Chicopee.