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The Grace Church started as a school group first on Feb 2 1879. It would become a church group on March 28 1894 as a branch of the Second Congregational Church.

Edwin Robinson was its most popular minister. FINDAGRAVE

Fairview

Dickenson and Clark Paper

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1895 map – gone

Sanborn 1915 map – gone

Daniel O’Connell’s Sons – office 480 Hampden Street and a yard on Meadow Street in Chicopee.

general contractor

road builders

masons

graders

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map – their home is at 188 Hampden Street

Sanborn 1915 map – work is at 480 and home is at 522 Hampden due to renumbering

C H Smith a dandy roll maker of the hollow truss type.

North Chestnut Street School and William Whiting School (1910)

contains high school 1852 to 1862

William Whiting School was built in 1910 where the North Chestnut Street School stood. There was a playground along its side that functioned as a school and a city playground. Its name was Chestnut Street Playground and retained that name even after the 1910 new school was put in place.

To its north was the Emerald Fire Station which remained there until 1919.  In 1977 Holyoke Catholic High School purchased the school and gradually turned it into their cafeteria and then their fourth building for classrooms.

Across the street from the school is the Quaker Meeting Home.  It was only used as such for 10 years from 1856 to 1866.

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1884 map

Sanborn 1889 map

Sanborn 1949 map

Sargeant Street School

1911 Richards map

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map – gone

Morgan School was built in 1901.

The modern Morgan School seems to have been constructed on March 2 1990.

Sanborn map analysis

Sanborn 1895 map – not there yet

Sanborn 1915 map

Sanborn 1949 map

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery of West Springfield is on Kings Highway. FINDAGRAVE

Older Gravestones at the Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery of West Springfield

Patrick Phelan

James Tyrrell – FINDAGRAVE

Agnes Contri has two gravestones

Chapel – from 1929

Jewish Cemeteries

B’Nai Jacob Cemetery

Beth El Cemetery

Beth Israel Cemetery

Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery

Saint Thomas Church

Church Street (Chicopee)

BELLAMY

Chicopee Manufacturing Company Boarding House LINK

Grove Street

Grove Street has a former mill housing unit.

Polish Home Association Building

		address	style
George Buckland	1835	71 Church	Greek Revival
George Rumrill	1846	81 Church
Edward Bellamy	1830	91 Church
Amos Jones	1840	99 Church
Andrew Hubbard	1837	109 Church
Jonathan Carpenter (Samuel Alvord)	1838	117 Church
Chicopee Manufacturing Company Boarding House	1830	25 Grove Street	Federal
Polish Home Association Building	1926	33 Grove
Fisk		154 Grove

George Buckland at 71 Church

George Rumrill at 81 Church

Edward Bellamy

Amos Jones at 99 Church

Andrew Hubbard at 109 Church

Arthur MacArthur Memorial – FINDAGRAVE

First Baptist Church – LINK

Chicopee Falls Canal

Uniroyal – US Rubber (1940) – Fisk Rubber (1898) – Spaulding and Pepper (1895)

Main Street

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1885 map – map B

Sanborn 1891 map – map B

Sanborn 1902 map – map B

Sanborn 1910 map – map B

Sanborn 1915 map – map B