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:
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 – LINK
EARLIER this year:
Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 (Holyoke)
Elmwood Cemetery tour (Holyoke)
South Hadley Canal – a presentation, a tour, and a display (South Hadley)
Precious Blood Church (Holyoke) and Precious Blood Cemetery (South Hadley)
The Six Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River (South Hadley)
Sacred Heart Church (Springfield)
Southampton Center Cemetery (Southampton)
Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour (Holyoke)
The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River (Chicopee)
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 (Southampton)
Cherry Lane Cemetery (Springfield)
East Street Cemetery (Easthampton)
Lake Vale Cemetery (Belchertown)
United Congregational Church of Holyoke (Holyoke)
Dufresne Park – A History and Nature Walk into its Woods (Granby)
North Amherst Cemetery (Amherst)
Main Street Cemetery (Easthampton)
Green Lawn Cemetery (East Longmeadow)
A House in Holyoke through Time – The Lewis Smith Homestead – (Holyoke)
The Springfield Blanket Company – part of series called A Mill in Holyoke through Time – (Holyoke)