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Chicopee Public Library

Chicopee Public Library

1846 – private library called the Cabot Institute (in Cabotville section of Springfield)

1853 – public library started from a Cabot Institute donation of books at Cabot Hall. This might have been the Cabot House across the street from the town hall.

1872 – library housed in the new Chicopee Town Hall

1890 – library moves next to the town hall into a house at the location of the 1913 library. This is Jerome Well’s house. It was before that Cabot Bank.

1911 – library temporarily moves back into Chicopee City Hall

1913 – Chicopee Library starts in new building at the former location

2004 – at current location

Sanborn 1885 map listed as a dwelling

Urban Renewal in Ward 4 in Holyoke Massachusetts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjmXsAhu4Hs from Harry Craven

Saint Mary’s of the Assumption Church

Saint Mary’s of the Assumption Church

This pastor data in the table is from their web site: EXTERNAL LINK

This web site claims that their church is the first Catholic church in the area. This is not true since the Saint Mary’s Church of Northampton had a prior church to its 1881 church. This was on King Street and was made in 1844. LINK See a map from 1871 of the old church. LINK

Saint Mary of the Assumption Church was dedicated on April 16 1868.

pastor	start	end	burial
Patrick Moyce
Edward Dunphy
John McMahon
William Lang
George Fitzgerald
Joseph Daley
John Roberts
John Kenney
John Mongovan
Jeremiah Murphy
Richard Hoey
Henry McKeon

Easthampton Library

Easthampton Library is in Knights Park. It was built in 1881. The style is English. The first library was in the Preston Store and then in the Town Hall.