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North Chestnut Street School and William Whiting School (1910)

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1949 map

Sargeant Street School

1911 Richards map

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map – gone

Morgan School was built in 1901.

The modern Morgan School seems to have been constructed on March 2 1990.

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map – not there yet

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery of West Springfield is on Kings Highway. FINDAGRAVE

Patrick Phelan

James Tyrrell – FINDAGRAVE

Amable Savaria – FINDAGRAVE

Chapel – from 1929

Jewish Cemeteries

B’Nai Jacob Cemetery

Beth El Cemetery

Beth Israel Cemetery

Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery

Saint Thomas Church

Church Street (Chicopee)

Edward Bellamy (1850 to 1898) – FINDAGRAVE – wrote Looking Backwards in 1888. He also wrote Equality in 1897. Lastly there was a booklet called The Religion of Solidarity.

Grove Street has a former mill housing unit.

George Buckland	1835	71 Church	Greek Revival
George Rumrill	1846	81 Church
Edward Bellamy	1830	91 Church
Amos Jones	1840	99 Church
Andrew Hubbard	1837	109 Church
Jonathan Carpenter (Samuel Alvord)	1838	117 Church
Chicopee Manufacturing Company Boarding House	1830	25 Grove Street	Federal
Polish Home Association Building	1926	33 Grove
Fisk		154 Grove

Chicopee Falls Canal

Uniroyal – US Rubber (1940) – Fisk Rubber (1898) – Spaulding and Pepper (1895)

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1885 map – map B

Sanborn 1891 map – map B

Sanborn 1902 map – map B

Sanborn 1910 map – map B

Sanborn 1915 map – map B

Works Progress Administration – Projects in Holyoke

There have been about 80 WPA projects in Holyoke.

Scotts Tower

MacKenzie Field

Saint Brigid’s Cemetery of Hadley

stop 1 – Gates

In Memory of James and Mary White AND Mary and Alice White.

Stop 2 – White family

Stop 3 – Arthur Victor Petit

Petit would die in France after World War 1 most likely during guard duty. Death January 8 1919. FINDAGRAVE

Stop 4 – Polish Section

Stop 5 – Babies

This is the baby section for infants that were never baptized.

Saint Mary’s Cemetery of Northampton is located on North Elm Street.

Patrick Moyce

Older Stones

Reinternments from the Old Saint Mary’s Cemetery

Flood Victims

FINDAGRAVE

Slough Hill schoolhouse

The school is from 1877.

Babies’ Section

Across Bridge Street

John Kenny

Across North Elm Street

This section was formed in 1939.

Hackney and Trottier mauseleum

Look Park

Childs Park

Forbes Library

Lilly Library

Smith College

Schools

Sojourner Truth Memorial

Florence

Leeds Memorial Park

Stanley Kolodzinski Park

Pulaski Park

Memorial Hall and its Plaza

Northampton Town Hall 1849

Cemeteries

Park Street Cemetery

Saint Mary’s Cemetery of Northampton

Spring Grove Cemetery

Bridge Street Cemetery

CHURCHES

Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church

Our Lady of the Annunciation Church

Sacred Heart Church

Saint John Cantius Polish Catholic Church

Saint Mary’s Church

First Baptist Church

Florence Congregational Church

First Church of Christ Congregational Church

Helen Hills Chapel 1955

Saint Johns Episcopal Church 1893

Northampton Unitarian Church 1904

CANALS

Clement Mill Canal

Cooks Canal

Lamb Wire Mill Canal

Maynard Shovel Mill Canal

Shepherd’s Woolen Mill Canal number 1

Shepherd’s Woolen Mill Canal number 2

Northampton Woolen Mill Canal

Nonotuck Silk Mill Canal

Northampton Cutlery Mill Canal

Northampton Paper Mill Canal

Warner Silk Mill Canal

The Power Canals of Northampton