2024 Holyoke Massachusetts area guided tours and presentations — FREE and OPEN to the public. Keep checking back since information will change. Presented by Robert Comeau. Sign up at Eventbrite for most of these tours. The Holyoke Preservation Trust is the host for most of the events.
The overall theme of the 2024 tours will be the silk trade in Holyoke.
Works Progress Administration in Holyoke
The Six Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River
The Parks and Playgrounds of Holyoke
A Mill in Holyoke through Time – the Skinner Silk Mill
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery in Easthampton
Rodphey Sholom Cemetery of Chicopee
West Street Cemetery of Granby
Rohan Park (of Holyoke) and its Neighborhood
Saint Stanislaus Cemetery – a 2024 tour for the cemetery’s 100th year
Gatehouse Park and Vietnam Veterans Bridge
South Amherst Cemetery and Commons
Church Street and its Neighborhood (Chicopee)
Fairview Cemetery and Holy Rosary Cemetery of Chicopee
Saint Brigid’s Cemetery of Hadley
Saint Mary’s Cemetery of Northampton
Chicopee Canal Tour – the Saturday of Labor Day weekend 2024
Immaculate Conception and Sacred Heart Churches and Saint Brigids Cemetery (all of Easthampton)
Churches of Holyoke – the Catholics
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour – walk along the first and second level canals – 9th annual
Whiting Street Reservoir Walking Tour – 7th annual
Saint George Church Campus (Chicopee)
Saint Thomas Church and Cemetery of West Springfield
Lower Mill Pond of Easthampton
A House in Holyoke through Time – From November 16 2023 to January 16 2024, people that live and own a home in Holyoke that is 100 years old or more as of 2024 can ask to enter their house into a pool. In November of 2024, I will give a 3rd annual presentation on a House in Holyoke through Time. The event will take place at the Holyoke Public Library. The house that I present will be one from the pool of entrants. Only long past owners will be part of the actual presentation and there will be no mention of the present. Email your address and a paragraph about why your house should be selected. Important categories under which your home might be selected are architecture and history.
Burial Grounds of Granby and South Hadley throughout their History
Doors Open Holyoke