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Brooks of Holyoke

Brooks of Holyoke

A brook is a small stream of water. A creek is a stream intermediate in size. A river is large stream. Holyoke has one river – the Connecticut River. It has no creeks but does have many brooks. [A creek is deep enough to float a boat and wide enough that you cannot jump across it but they are hard to navigate since they are often blocked by fallen trees.]

nameheadwatersnaturally flows intolink
Barry BrookSnake PondBush Trask Brook (West Springfield)link
Bray BrookMount TomConnecticut Riverlink
Broad BrookEast MountainNashawannuck Pondlink
Cascade BrookMount TomBray Brooklink
Crystal SpringCrafts HillDay Brooklink
Day BrookCrafts HillConnecticut Riverlink
Dibble BrookEast MountainAshley Pondlink
Free Orchard BrookMount TomRoaring Brooklink
Green Brooklink
Hastings Brookswamp near Whiting Street ReservoirRoaring Brooklink
Paucatuck BrookEast MountainWestfield Riverlink
Riley BrookEast MountainTannery Brooklink
Roaring BrookEast MountainConnecticut Riverlink
Schoolhouse BrookBobala RoadGoldine Brook (West Springfield)link
Serendipity BrookMount TomBray Brooklink
Silver BrookPleasant near Dartmouth StreetConnecticut Riverlink
Tannery BrookEast MountainConnecticut Riverlink
Tatro BrookEast MountainAshley Pondlink

Forest Park

map of the park – external LINK

Trolley

Barney Carriage House

Carriage House – external LINK

Barney Mausoleum

The Barney mausoleum has a fine looking Achilleion style outdoor staircase. This mausoleum houses Everett Barney and his second wife plus his son.

Monument

Recreation and the Zoo Too at the Forest Park

Forest Park Zoo – External LINK

Rose Trellises

Amphitheater

Aquatic Areas

Omiskanoagwiak – The Wolf People Sculpture – Trail of the Whispering Giants 1984

Pecousic Pond

The covered footbridge over the Pecousic Brook is from 1980.

Between Aquatic Area and Duck Pond

Between Duck Pond and Fountain Pond

The Fountain Lake Stone Dam is from 1922.

Between Fountain Pond and Porter Pond

Porter memorial

Echo Program

Prouty Grove

King Philip’s Stockade

Toto the Windsor Indian Monument 1927

Recreation

Mononatto Lookover 1984

Porter Lake Stone Dam 1919

Springfield Cemetery

Springfield Cemetery

The Springfield Cemetery has their own web site. EXTERNAL It includes their history, some gravestones, and book to buy.

Josiah Holland – FINDAGRAVE

Pelatiah Bliss – FINDAGRAVE

MAP (at OpenStreetmap)

Beers 1871

CHAPEL

OFFICE

Holding Tomb

The first tomb was from 1841 and expanded in 1856. A new one was made in 1873.

Methodist Cemetery

A child of Samuel McNary was buried here on the 12th of December 1825. This was the first burial in the Methodist Cemetery. The Union Street Methodist Episcopal Society sold this cemetery in 1858.

Samuel Hoyt

Samuel Hoyt was the leader of the Highland Park Associates. Hoyt at FINDAGRAVE. This was a real estate group that was based on North Pleasant Street at the SE corner of Yale Street. From 1920 to 1925, his company was at 85 Dartmouth Street.

In 1923 he started up another company called Hoyt Construction. In later life, he would be the real estate manager at People’s Bank and at Mechanics Bank.

homesstartsendsnotes
Brooklyn, New York1900census
365 Appleton Street, Holyoke1910census but not in directory
84 Pleasant Street19111911
25 Stanford Street19121913
37 Dartmouth Street19141918
2 Taylor Street19181920
11 Yale Street19211922
2 Cleveland Street19231924near Harvard
57 Park Slope Road19251925
210 Pleasant Street19261926
37 Stratford Street19271927
Stony Point, Rockland County, New York19281933removed to NY
8 Brooks Street (now called O’Connor Avenue)19341954from census, plus 1934-1946 and 1955-6 directories