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Cemeteries of Holyoke

Rock Valley Cemetery Tour

Forestdale Cemetery Tour

Calvary Cemetery tour

Elmwood Cemetery tour

Saint Jerome Cemetery tour

Smith’s Ferry Cemetery and Neighborhood tour

Mont Marie Cemetery Tour

Calvary Cemetery of the Sisters of Providence Tour

Forestdale West Cemetery tour

Burial Grounds of Holyoke throughout its History (presentation)

Catholic Churches of Holyoke

Mater Dolorosa Church Campus

Immaculate Conception Church Campus

Holy Rosary Church Campus

Blessed Sacrament Church Campus

Precious Blood Church Campus

Saint Jerome Church Campus

Sacred Heart Church Campus

Our Lady of the Perpetual Help Church Campus

Holy Cross Church Campus

Holy Family Chapel

Protestant Churches of Holyoke

First Congregational Church of Holyoke

Second Congregational Church of Holyoke

for the First French Congregational Church – see the Second Congregational Church

Grace Church

Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church of Holyoke

German Reformed Church

German Evangelical Lutheran Church

First Baptist Church of Holyoke

Second Baptist Church of Holyoke

First Presbyterian Church of Holyoke

Unitarian Church of Holyoke

Endeavor Chapel Mission

Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall

Jewish

Congregation Rodphey Sholom Synagogue

Congregation Sons of Zion Synagogue

Other

Saint Michael’s Byzantine Old Slavonic Church

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

Four Churches in the Highlands Walking Tour (includes Holy Cross Church, Saint Paul’s Church, First Congregational Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church)

The Holyoke Parks and Recreation Department not only does a great job of maintaining their parks, they also do a fine job of describing their park system. Read about their many PARKS at their external link. I give tours of some of these many parks and that is described at each link below.

At the peak of recreation in Holyoke in 1953 for an example, there were 8 softball diamonds, 7 baseball diamonds, and 7 skating rinks. Also in that year Toto’s Restaurant donated the use of its picnic grove for the summertime youth programs. This was called the Smith Ferry Community Center. These city program were even in the Holyoke Jewish Community Center. They had programs in fields and parks and in private business and public schools.

name	tour link	location	year	comments
Anniversary Field	tour link	location		information
Avery Field	tour link	location		Hampden Field
Bonin Field	tour link	location		Germania Park
Community Field	tour link	location		information
Crosier	tour link
Deroy Park	tour link	location		Canonchet Park
DiNapoli Plaza	tour link	location
Elmwood Park	tour link	location		MacKenzie, Crosier, Sheard, Roberts, and Young
Feldman Park	tour link			see Pulaski
Harper Park	link			Wyatt Harper
Holyoke Heritage State Park	link
Ingleside Playground	link
Jackson Courts	link
Jones Point Park	tour link	location		Highland Park
Kennedy Park	tour link
Kenney Park	link
Korean War Veterans Memorial Plaza	link
Kosciuszko Park	tour link	location
Laurel Park	tour link
Library Park	tour link	location
MacKenzie	tour link			see Elmwood
Mayer Field	link
McNally Field	tour link		May 21 1939 renamed and rededicated	William McNally died in France in June 1918
McNulty Park	tour link
Mitchell Field	tour link	location		Prospect Field
Morgan Street Park	tour link
Peasants Park	link	Appleton and Beech
Pina Park	link	Flats
Pulaski Park	tour link	location		Prospect Park
Rohan Park	tour link	location		Kirtland School
Roberts	tour link			see Elmwood
Roosevelt Triangle	link	100 feet west of Hillside and Westfield Road
Sheard	tour link			see Elmwood
Soucy Park	link
South Chestnut Street Park	tour link			South Chestnut Street School
Springdale Park	tour link	location		Riverside Park
Sullivan Square	tour link	location	1889	Appleton, Pleasant, and Dwight
Vega Park	tour link	location	1889	Hamilton Park
Veteran’s Park	tour link	location		Hampden Park
Young	tour link			see Elmwood
Liberty Park	tour link	NW corner of Winter and Appleton Streets	1943 (gone)
Waterfront Park	link			called Depression Park
Henry Toepfert Playground		at foot of Lyman Street	1961
Alfred Corbeil play land		behind White Restaurant in Smiths Ferry	1961
Ivers Square

Canals of Ware

Otis Company Canals of Ware

Stevens Woolen Mill Canal

Gilbert Mill Canal

Middle Dam on the Ware Canal System

Cemeteries of Ware

Incorporated 1775 settled in 1717

Aspen Grove Cemetery

Walnut Grove Cemetery

West Cemetery

Ware Center Cemetery

West Street Burial Ground – West Street Route 32 (Palmer Road) near Robbins Street 1761 to 1826 – family cemetery

Old Saint William Cemetery

New Saint William Cemetery

Quabbin Park Cemetery

Mount Carmel Cemetery

Saint Mary’s Cemetery

Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Ware throughout its History

Churches of Ware

All Saints Church

Saint Mary’s Church

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

Saint William’s Catholic Church

Methodist Episcopal Church of Ware

Ware Center Congregational Meeting House

Trinity Episcopal Church – on Park Street – 1888

Unitarian Church

East Congregational Church

Cemeteries of South Hadley

Saint Rose Cemetery

Notre Dame Cemetery

Mater Dolorosa Cemetery

Precious Blood Cemetery

South Hadley Village Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery – FINDAGRAVE

South Hadley Center Burial Grounds Walking Tour

Burial Grounds of South Hadley throughout its History (presentation)

Saint Patrick’s Church of South Hadley

Saint Theresa of Lisieux Church of South Hadley

Little Flower Church of South Hadley

South Hadley Center Congregational Church

South Hadley Falls Congregational Church

South Hadley Methodist Church

All Saints Episcopal Church

Second Baptist Church of South Hadley

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church

First Lutheran Church of South Hadley

Abbey Chapel

Saint Michael’s Byzantine Old Slavonic Church

Second Meeting House of South Hadley

Churches of South Hadley

Churches of Northampton

Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church

Our Lady of the Annunciation Church

Sacred Heart Church

Saint John Cantius Polish Catholic Church

Saint Mary’s Church

Saint Catherine the Martyr Church – Leeds

Saint Valentine Polish National Catholic Church

First Baptist Church

Florence Congregational Church

First Church of Christ Congregational Church

Helen Hills Hills Chapel

Saint Johns Episcopal Church

Northampton Unitarian Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

Second Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Edwards Congregational Church – Main St 1833

Free Congregational Society of Florence – Main Street in Florence 1863

First Church of Christ Scientist – 44 Center

Congregation B’Nai Israel – 20 Bridge

Union Chapel – 37.5 Chapel – Hospital Hill Chapel

West Farms Chapel – West Farms Road

Cemeteries of Northampton

Bridge Street Cemetery

Congregation B’nai Israel Cemetery

Hebrew Society Cemetery

Northampton State Hospital Burial Grounds

Saint Mary’s Cemetery of Northampton

Saint Marys Assumption Cemetery

Our Lady of the Annunciation Churchyard

Park Street Cemetery

Saint Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery

West Farms Cemetery

Northampton Native American Burial Site

Holy Trinity Cemetery (cemetery of the St Valentine Church) – see Hatfield

Burial Grounds of Northampton throughout its History