Saint Constantine and Helen Church
Saint Constantine and Helen Church
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Saint George Church
Saint George Church is the modern name of the Saint Joachim Church of Chicopee. The name change happened on August 23 1924. This is when the modern church built from 1922 to 1924 was completed. This is on Belcher Street.
Saint Joachim Church was founded in 1893 at the request of the Springfield Diocese bishop. Alexis Delphos was made the first pastor.
| pastor | starts | ends | burial |
| Alexis Delphos | 1893 | 1911 | FINDAGRAVE |
| George A Gagnon | 1911 | 1937 | FINDAGRAVE |
| Silvio J Desautels | 1938 | FINDAGRAVE | |
| FINDAGRAVE | |||
| Ronald Lussier | 1975 | 2002 | FINDAGRAVE |
| FINDAGRAVE | |||
Old Church
The old church Saint Joachim was on Maple Street. It was made in 1896.
Rectory
The church rectory is from the 1840s. It was the Pliny Cadwell House. He was a merchant in Chicopee. Alfred Rutotels briefly owned it in the 1880s. In 1895 it became a rectory.
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Carriage House
Alfred Rutotels Carriage House is behind the rectory. It is from 1894.
Churchyard
Old Convent
James Bly House was sold to the church in 1893 and this would be the first church for the parish. It would later be the convent. Sold in 2004.
School
The school Ecole St Georges was started in 1927. Sold in 2016.
Convent
The convent is on Maple Street and is from 1927.
Neighborhood
The Victoria 1914 made by DeGray
Hamilton Fay House 1845
Sanborn map analysis:
Saint Patrick’s Church
Saint Patrick’s Church of Chicopee was on Sheridan Street. See the 1896 Sanborn map below.
The church was dedicated on December 15 1872. The rectory was built in 1872 and this became the convent in 1880. In the spring of 1873 the cemetery was made. The cemetery is explained HERE. The school was made in 1880 and was staffed by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. They lived in the St Joseph’s Convent. A new rectory was made nearby. Both the school and rectory were made on Columba Street which is a few streets away from Sheridan Street.
| pastor | starts | ends | burial |
| Patrick Stone | 1872 | 1905 | FINDAGRAVE |
| 1905 | FINDAGRAVE | ||
| John R Murphy | 1922 | 1934 | FINDAGRAVE |
| Patrick F Doyle | 1935 | FINDAGRAVE | |
| W Alton O’Toole | 1936 | 1937 | FINDAGRAVE |
| John R Rooney | 1938 | 1946 | FINDAGRAVE |
| Francis William Hafey | 1946 | 1948 | FINDAGRAVE |
| Thomas Curran | 1948 | FINDAGRAVE | |
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| Joseph C Fenton | FINDAGRAVE | ||
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| FINDAGRAVE |
In 1938 a new location was bought for the church and the rectory. Construction did not start until March 1947 and the first mass was Feb 13 1949. Wendell Phillips was the architect and Edward Larkin the builder.
The old St Patricks School was replaced in April 17 1970 with a new one.
Sanborn maps
First Church of Chicopee
First Church of Chicopee was organized on September 27 1752.
Saint Anthony of Padua Church
The first mass of the Saint Anthony of Padua Parish was August 9 1925. The first campus building was built to be a school but the second floor was changed into a church. The first mass there was April 10 1927 (Palm Sunday). The first pastor was Celestine Rozewicz. The cornerstone was blessed May 29 1927. The rectory was ready for Christmas of 1928.
In 1942 the church hall was transformed via renovations from a hall look into a religious church look. A new church was ready for July 7 1971 and blessed on October 24 1971. The old church became a social center. The history of the parish is explained very nicely at LINK. The campus is bounded by St Anthony Street to the south (formerly Senecal Street), Celestine Street to the north (formerly Enright Street), Meadow Street to the east, and Chicopee Street to the west. Within this neighborhood is the Chapin School and this was where religious classes were held.
Saint Anthony of Padua Parish would use the Saint Stanislaus Cemetery as its burial ground.
pastors
| Celestine Rozewicz | 1926 | 1939 | BURIAL |
| Michael M Cieslik | 1939 | 1940 | BURIAL |
| Benign M Ziemski | 1940 | 1948 | BURIAL |
| Raphael Wisniewski | 1966 | 1979 | BURIAL |
| Placid Kaczorek | 1988 | 1990 | BURIAL |
| Benedict Fagone | BURIAL | ||
| Gerard Maciejewski | BURIAL | ||
| BURIAL | |||
Sanborn maps – nothing
Tour Route for the Mount Tom Golf Course
Tour Route for the Mount Tom Golf Course
Stop A – Oldest Club House
stop B – Gates to the Mount Tom Golf Course
stop C – Wyckoff House and 1899 Club House
stop D – Mount Tom Drive
stop E – Location of the Club House from 1911 to 1955
Stop F – Steiger house
stop G – Club House from 1956 to 1966
Stop H – End of Mountain View Drive
Saint Anne Church
Saint Anne Church of the Fairview neighborhood of Chicopee was a mission church of the Saint Patrick’s Church of South Hadley from 1899 to 1912. John Donohue is the architect.
| John O’Connell | burial | 1912-1919 |
| Victor Epinard | burial | 1919-1925 |
| Stanislaus Guillet | burial | 1925-1928 |
| Leon Ruty | burial | 1928-1944 |
| Henry Auger | burial | 1944-1955 |
| Edward Authier | burial | 1955-1970 |
| William Breen | burial | 1970-1972 |
| Raphael Posco | burial | 1972-1973 |
| Francis Sullivan | burial | 1973-1985 |
| Roland Galipeau | burial | 1985-1995 |
| Victor Carrier | burial | 1995-2003 |
| William Rousseau | burial | 2003-2014 |
| Richard Turner | burial | |
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Old Springfield Burial Ground
The Old Springfield Burial Ground was an ancient burial ground near the center of Springfield. it was moved in the 1840s to the back of Springfield Cemetery. It held the old burial of Springfield and its precincts. West Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee, and more used this cemetery.
John Riley of Holyoke, Japhet Chapin of Chicopee, and more are here.
Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery
The Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery is in Chicopee Massachusetts. It was purchased from Chicopee on June 26 1897 from a portion of the land of Fairview Cemetery. It belongs to the Holy Mother of the Rosary Church which is a Polish National Church in Chicopee.
1 -Gates and Sign
Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery has nice masonry gates.
2 – Bishop
Walenty Peter Gawrychowski – FINDAGRAVE
Gawrychowski became bishop of the eastern district of the USA on August 25 1925.
Most likely this memorial stone was above the grave of Gawrychowski but the stone was moved to a position lower down the hill and an altar shaped memorial stone was placed above the body of Gawrychowski in 1961.
3 – Memorial
altar consecrated as a token of gratitude to Fr Walenty Gawrychowski and the first founders of the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary in December 1896 - true work
4 – WW2 Death
5 – Old Stones
6 – Fairview Cemetery
The Holy Rosary Cemetery has been carved out of the older Fairview Cemetery. This cemetery is easy to view from the fence at the top of the hill. LINK
7 – Modern Stones
8 – Holy Mother of the Rosary Polish National Church
The parish was found December 23 1896. The first pastor came January 11 1897 from Buffalo New York. This was Valentine Gawrychowski. The dedication of the church was October 12 1897.
Walenty Peter Gawrychowski – FINDAGRAVE
Fairview Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery in Chicopee Massachusetts was made in 1870 as a lawn style cemetery to replace the older Protestant cemeteries in Chicopee that were filling up quickly. It first name was New Cemetery but in 1890 the name was changed to Fairview Cemetery. From the mid 1870s to 1890 the name Town Cemetery was used. It is not located in the Fairview neighborhood of Chicopee but rather its name came from its scenic design. The land was bought from Bemis, Van Horn, Paine, and Conway families and two of those listed families had retained a section of the cemetery for their burial plots.
One of the first caretakers of the cemetery was Hiram Downing.
Stop A – Gates of the Cemetery
Melzar Mosman a world famous sculptor made these gates. Mosman was from Chicopee. The money for the gates were bequested from the will of George Stearns (FINDAGRAVE).
stop B – Tomb of the Cemetery
The land was purchased in 1869 and work started at once. The first burial was in 1870.
stop C – Chapel of the Cemetery
Honors Sarah Spaulding a benefactor of the city.
The Spaulding burials are NOT in the chapel but rather their gravestone is about 50 feet to the south. FINDAGRAVE
stop D – Robinson
stop E – Bellamy
stop F – zinc gravestone
Cenotaph to George Bonner who died in Georgia in a train crash.
stop G – Lyman Van Horn stone
The land for the cemetery was purchased from the Bemis, Van Horn, Paine, and Conway families.
stop H – Lydia Hyde the first burial
Lydia Hyde (FINDAGRAVE) was the first true burial in this cemetery. After she died March 13 1870 she was interred in this cemetery. There seem to be about 100 earlier burials but this is deceptive since many people were reburied here from other cemeteries in Chicopee after this new cemetery was made. Also people would add their ancestors to gravestones since that deceased person might not have an inscription in the other cemetery.
stop I – Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery
The Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery is in Chicopee Massachusetts. It was purchased from Chicopee on June 26 1897 from a portion of the land of Fairview Cemetery. It belongs to the Holy Mother of the Rosary Church which is a Polish National Church in Chicopee.
stop J – cemetery design
Fairview Cemetery is a rural cemetery design. A map of its interior streets is HERE.