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Elisha Perkins

Lewis Smith

The Lewis Smith house is now the Alleluia House.

Land of Jericho

Stations of the Cross at Jericho

Gethsemini Gardens

More of the Smith Homesteads.

owner	starts	ends
Lewis Smith	1785	1838	house is perhaps a 1825 rebuild
Charles Smith	1838	1893
Lyman Briggs	1893	1918
Joseph Doran	1918	1938
Edward Schaeffer	1938	1978
Jericho	1978	2025	Bureau for Exceptional Children

Ichabod How

Daniel Ludington B 1749

D 1824 in West Springfield and is buried at Rock Valley Cemetery

married Naomi Searle in about 1774 in Connecticut

He had parents of Jude Ludington and Martha Page.

Hospitals of Holyoke

The Clarke Surgical Hospital was also called the Holyoke Surgical Hospital and was located in the Smith Ferry neighborhood of Holyoke. It was made May 26 of 1920. Louis H Clarke and Philip H Clarke ran the hospital.

In the 1926 city directory, both these doctors live at 1039 Northampton Street. They both work at 282 1/2 Maple Street. This Maple Street office must have been for appointments with patients and the surgical center was only for surgeries.

Sanborn 1949 map

Sanborn 1956 map

Rosary School Graduations

Old South Hadley Burial Grounds

Jesse Lie in her cemetery book used a reversed grid from mine. Her grid starts at the back and looking east sections A and B are in front and C and D are in back. A and C are to your left and B and D are to the right.

	left – front view	left – back view	right – front view	right – back view
row 1
2
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9

	left – front view	left – back view	right – front view	right – back view
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Hospitals of Holyoke

House of Providence Charity Home opened in South Hadley in 1873.  It is still there located on Crescent Lane.  It was the first Catholic hospital in Western Massachusetts ever. It was at first called the Asylum of the House of Providence and was staffed by the Sisters of Charity of Providence at the parish house of St Patrick’s Chapel. From 1875 to 1878 it was again a hospital – a contagion hospital.

The House of Providence Charity Home opened in Holyoke the next year – 679 Dwight Street (the Parsons House at the corner of Dwight and Elm).  It was a wooden structure until 1893 when a three story brick structure was built directly in front of that home.

In 1940 a pharmacy and a laboratory were opened behind the hospital. 

Then it ended up in the Brightside Neighborhood. The hospital was served by the Sisters of Providence. The move to the new one took place on May 31 1958 (work had started September 8 1956).

All was run by the Sisters of Providence. Superiors were:

Sr Mary Anthony	1908
Sr Mary Visitation	1917