2025 will be my 11th year of giving tours and presentations on topics about Holyoke, South Hadley, and Chicopee. The schedule of FREE PUBLIC tours for this calendar year will be up soon. If you want a private tour then see the tour and rates page. My available TOURS. The tours and events expanded into other communities including Granby, Amherst, and Easthampton in 2024. During 2025 new communities will be added – Belchertown, Hatfield, Agawam, Ludlow, Westfield, East Longmeadow, West Springfield, Hadley, and Southampton. The major topic for 2025 will be the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution.
The Holyoke Canal Tour is a web based system to guide and instruct you around the Holyoke Canal System and its mills. The most important page is the DESTINATIONS page. There you will find a grid of the 18 stops with each stop being a clickable link. From each of those links is a page that helps you get to the location and then describes the physical and historical properties of the canal and the mills there. (Also back at the DESTINATIONS page you will find in the grid a link to a google map to help you navigate to that location.) On the stop description pages, you will find underlined phrases that are clickable and that will bring you to a picture.
Thank you for your interest in the tour around the canal. Please, also use the other links – Charity, Sponsors, and more.
