In 1908 the Barlow Company is there making nickel and brass fixtures.
Sanborn map analysis:
Sanborn 1884 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, and Holyoke Envelope
Sanborn 1889 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, B F Nichols Belt Manufactory, McCallum Constable Hosiery, and the National Blank Book Company
Sanborn 1895 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, B F Nichols Belt Manufactory, and the National Blank Book Company
Sanborn 1915 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill
Sanborn 1949 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill
Sanborn 1956 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill
The General Electric plant in Holyoke was at the southwestern end of the second level canal. General Electric plants on the Hudson River and the Housatonic River polluted those rivers from the 1930 to the 1970s. The pollutant was PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls. It is not known if this site is polluted or not so it is a brownfield.
Production at the plant was by site within the plant so there was no segregation of duties by floors.
The Three Star Theater was at 108 Lyman Street from 1911 to 1932. It was attached to the back of the Lenox Hotel which itself was across the street from the Richardson Train Station.
The White and Wyckoff Mill made cards in postcards, greeting cards, and business cards. They were a division of the Western Tablet and Stationery Corp. with Edward White as president. The main mill is one Water Street near Cabot. In 1935 there was a mill 3 in Davenport Iowa.
The Hampden Cotton Mill is between the first and second canals. Its history is as such:
In 1853, Hampden Mills incorporated and the Hadley Falls Company built them a cotton mill. They ran 10 thousand spindles and employed 300 people. In 1854, Donald Chase MacKintosh (1819 to 1902) came from Scotland as a dyer – a boss dyer. In 1868 Donald MacKintosh was fired by the Hampden Mills. Then he started MacKintosh Company near the Parsons Paper Mill number 1 near the dam. Fire destroyed this small mill. He moved the mill to Northampton for a while and then he moved it back to Bigelow Street in Holyoke. In 1881 the name was changed to MacKintosh and Sons. In 1883 Crystal Spring Aqueduct Company started in the Hampden Mills. Finally, in 1888 the Hampden Mills went bankrupt. Donald MacKintosh bought the Hampden Mills.
For many years, they did cotton blends, then they did cotton only, and then they did cotton yarn (by 1918). In 1943 they had 300 workers but in 1945 a 6-day strike over wages happened. In 1952, MacKintosh Mill is losing money so they move to Clover South Carolina.
Buildings:
family line:
father: Donald Chase MacKintosh (1819 to 1902)
son: Charles MacKintosh (1857 to 1923) – he built a home in 1892 at 1913 Northampton Street and then in 1896 at 459 Northampton Street
grandson: John MacKintosh – banker in Holyoke and Springfield
