2025 Holyoke Massachusetts area guided tours and presentations — FREE and OPEN to the public. [Except for the listed private tours and presentations.] 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 promoter for most of the events and oftentimes the host too.
2025 tours and presentations:
Dufresne Park – A History and Nature Walk into its Woods (Granby) – Saturday October 18 2025 from 10 AM to noontime – park and meet in the parking lot off of Kendall Street – learn about dams and reservoirs on the trails in the southern reaches of the parkland and also about tree species within the park – sign up at EVENTBRITE – NOTE that we will be walking 1.5 miles of which a half mile in the woods is very HILLY – joining only the park tour and not the woods tour is permissible – funded via the Granby Local Cultural Council
North Amherst Cemetery (Amherst) – Saturday October 25 2025 from 11 AM to noontime – meet and park within the cemetery which is at 902 East Pleasant Street – walk around this historic burial ground – sign up at EVENTBRITE – funded via the Amherst Local Cultural Council
Fuller Cemetery (Ludlow) – Saturday November 1 2025 from 11 AM to noontime – meet and park on the road just in front of the cemetery which is at 839 Center Street – learn about how cemeteries were laid out – sign up at EVENTBRITE – funded via the Ludlow Local Cultural Council
Main Street Cemetery (Easthampton) – Saturday November 8 2025 from 1 to 2 PM – meet and park within the cemetery which is just past 384 Main Street – learn about the moved gravestones – sign up at EVENTBRITE starting in the first week of October – funded via the Easthampton Local Cultural Council
Green Lawn Cemetery (East Longmeadow) – Saturday November 15 2025 from 1 to 2 PM – park along Callender Avenue and meet at the gate of the older part of the cemetery – walk around both segments – sign up at EVENTBRITE starting in the third week of October – funded via the East Longmeadow Local Cultural Council
A House in Holyoke through Time – The Lewis Smith Homestead – a Holyoke presentation – Monday November 17 2025 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM in the Community Room of the Holyoke Public Library – funded via the Holyoke Local Cultural Council
The Springfield Blanket Company – part of series called A Mill in Holyoke through Time (a Holyoke presentation) – Saturday November 22 2025 from 11 AM to noontime at Holyoke Heritage State Park – funded via the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Holyoke Tourism Advisory Board
Catholic Cemeteries of Springfield – Burial Grounds of Springfield throughout its History (a Springfield presentation part 1 of 5) – Monday December 8 2025 from 6 to 7 PM at the East Forest Park Branch Library – funded via the Springfield Local Cultural Council
EARLIER this year:
Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 (Holyoke)
Elmwood Cemetery tour (Holyoke)
South Hadley Canal – a presentation, a tour, and a display
Precious Blood Church (Holyoke) and Precious Blood Cemetery
The Six Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River
Sacred Heart Church (Springfield)
Southampton Center Cemetery (Southampton)
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour (Holyoke)
The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River
Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery (Belchertown)
The Catholic Churches of Chicopee (Chicopee)
Canals in the Connecticut River Valley
Ashleyville Cemetery (West Springfield)
Saint Anthony of Padua Church (Chicopee)
Brookside Cemetery (Easthampton)
Chicopee Center Canal (Chicopee)
Who Were the Militiamen from Ireland Parish? (Holyoke) – (see Revolutionary War Veterans in Holyoke)
East Street Cemetery (Chicopee)
Burial Grounds of Southampton throughout its History
Cherry Lane Cemetery (Springfield)
East Street Cemetery (Easthampton)
Lake Vale Cemetery (Belchertown)
United Congregational Church of Holyoke