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Ashley Cemetery

Mount Calvary Cemetery

Saint Thomas Cemetery

Paucatuck Cemetery

Protestants

Old Hadley Cemetery

Hockanum Cemetery

North Hadley Cemetery

Plainville Cemetery

Russellville Cemetery

Catholics

Holy Rosary Cemetery

Saint Brigid’s Cemetery of Hadley

Native Americans

Hockanum Native American Burial Ground

North Hadley Native American Burial Ground

cemetery tours

Calvary Cemetery

Chicopee Street Burying Ground

East Street Cemetery

Fairview Cemetery

Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery

Holy Name of Jesus Churchyard

Maple Grove Cemetery

Rodphey Sholom Cemetery

Saint Patrick’s Cemetery

Sainte Rose de Lima Cemetery

Saint Stanislaus Cemetery

Sons of Zion Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Chicopee throughout its History (presentation)

Cemeteries

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)

cemetery

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

Burial Grounds of Holyoke throughout its History (presentation)

Holy Rosary Churchyard

Precious Blood Churchyard

Saint Jerome Churchyard

Holyoke Water Power generated most of the electricity in the city pre-1902. See the chart below for use in lights. Thus in this tiny comparison, there is a very obvious shift from gas over to electric. The age of electricity was upon us.

	lights	electric lights	gas lights	naphtha lights (oil)
1875	85	0	60	25
1876	101	0	67	34
1878	113	0	78	35
1879	125	0	85	38
1880	136	0	99	37
1882-1883	163			44
1890	309	159	88	50
1891	333	183	49	39

Holyoke Gas and Electric was created in 1902 as a public city department from the electrical division of the private Holyoke Water Power Company.

In 1952 HWP starts Springdale Industrial Park.

Also in that year the Mount Tom Power Plant is started at 136 MW. That gives Holyoke a total of 207 MW.

Riverside Station makes 44 MW from a high pressure steam station. The power is piped to mills on lower Appleton Street.

A Jet Gas Turbine was purchased in December of 1963 and dedicated October 14 1964.

A 6,250 KVa number 9 generator was installed in 1941.

At 5:16 PM of November 9 1965 the Northeast Blackout hit the USA. This was the largest electrical blackout in American history.

In 1967, a new 13 kV aerial cable and 2000 KVA transformer are installed at the Mt Tom Ski area. In that same year on Dec 15th a Holyoke Substation was put in place.

There were other companies in Holyoke that made energy. Look at the coal plant in northern Holyoke.

Parks of Holyoke

Laurel Park is a nice feature along a former trolley route. Read the Elmwood Circuit route at this LINK.

It was purchased by the city and decorated to make a park. In 1912 the cobble fountain was built. The fountain is functional. Laurel Park was called Elmwood Triangle for its first few years.

Sanborn 1915 map – the 1895 shows a sliver of the land

1949 map

1956 map

Parks of Holyoke

McNulty Park was gifted to the city by Stop and Shop in 1964.

It is also called Lincoln Street Park (1962).

The park was dedicated October 23 1965.

The Veteran’s Park walking tour booklet is available from me. They cost $5 for a black-and-white stapled copy. Each additional copy after that is $3 more when shipped together. For a color copy, the cost is $8 and each additional copy in color is $6.

Email me from my contact page for details. The booklets that you order will be mailed to you via USPS so I need a physical address. Other booklets are available at the BOOKLET page. You can follow this tour at LINK.