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1923	1927 to 1929	1933	1936
1924	1930	1934	1937
1925	1931	1935	1938
1926	1932		1941

Anniversary and Community Fields links 1923

Anniversary Field Pageant

Parks of Holyoke

Hamilton Park is 44 feet along Sargeant Street, 97 at its north, and 254 feet along East Street. It is 18, 059 square feet in all. Its borders are Hamilton, Park, East, and Sargeant Streets. Park Street is now called Clemente Street. The park is now called Vega Park. It is officially made in 1889 but the 1884 Walker map has it as an open space.

The Lost Grave of South Hadley

VIDEO on Vimeo

LINK to my pay per view video on Patreon.

The Bowdoin stone started at the Old South Hadley Cemetery. It was moved in 1902 during the move of that old cemetery. All the stones that were moved in 1902 were moved to Evergreen Cemetery except this Bowdoin stone. In Evergreen, they were moved to the back of that cemetery or to the family section of that cemetery. It was always rumored that a few stones were moved elsewhere. Families could have the burials from the Old South Hadley Cemetery moved to anywhere in the country but they would have had to pay for the move of the burials and the stone plus the new plot at the cemetery they would be placed into.

This Bowdoin stone is on the Professor Soule list of stones that were at the Old South Hadley Cemetery. (Soule’s list is available at the South Hadley History Room at the South Hadley Library.)

Henry Bowdoin one of the sons of the family died in 1904. That was the year of the move and the family plot would have now been in this cemetery. If one looks at the Soule list and subtracts off all names in the Jessie Lie book from 1976 (Lie’s book is about the stones in the back of Evergreen from the 1902 move), then one is left with about 20 family monuments. Looking through the main body of Evergreen, one finds all of these family stones but one. The one that is the lost one is this Bowdoin stone.

William Bowdoin – FINDAGRAVE

1 – Abby Allen Bowdoin (20 Sept 1828-8 Apr 1884)

2 – Laura White Gridley Bowdoin (24 Apr 1821- 28 Dec 1845)

3 – Laura White Gridley Bowdoin (1796-21 Apr 1822)

4 – Harriat Bowdoin (9 Nov 1861-1947)

5 – William Bowdoin (25 Oct 1786- 23 June 1856)

6 – Caleb Strong Bowdoin (26 March 1815-1840)

7 – infant son Bowdoin (b/d 10 Sept 1824)

8 – William Horace Bowdoin (16 Oct 1825-1 May 1869)

9 – Harriet Gridley Bowdoin (1833-8 Dec 1834)

10 – Birdaline Bowdoin (1870-1933)

11 – Harold Mortimer Bowdoin (23 Nov 1876-1949)

12 – Mabel Mason Bowdoin (1876-1946)

13 – Harriet Goodrich Bowdoin (22 May 1793-4 Dec 1868)

14 – Henry Augustine Bowdoin (24 July 1830-6 Aug 1904)

15 – Marian Waters Bowdoin (1837-1929)

The family tree chart that I have made is by design centered around William Bowdoin (d 1856). He was a lawyer and the first postmaster of the Canal Village Post Office. His house was featured in a journal – INTERNAL LINK

Henry Bowdoin had his subset of a family buried here too with his father and mother.

One daughter of his is Harriette Bowdoin. She was an Impressionist painter in New York City. – Internal link to her art.

Henry’s son William Goodrich Bowdoin was an art critic. WORK William Bowdoin wrote several books:

The Rise of the Book Plates LINK

25th year Anniversary of Holyoke happened in 1898

100th year anniversary of Holyoke as a city happened in 1973. There was a city wide ball held in 5 locations at the same time – Wyckoff, Holiday Inn, Gleasons’s, Opera House, and City Hall. This was held on September 28th. There was also a parade that had about 10 thousands viewers.

One cool event from the Elizur Holyoke boat ride from Brunelle’s Marina of South Hadley on a southernly course.

A documentary film was made called Holyoke’s 100th. WGBY of the PBS station was the lead.

75th Anniversary of Holyoke in Springfield newspaper

The 50th year – Semi-Centennial of Holyoke was celebrated in 1923. It was held from August 31 to September 3 (Friday to Labor Day Monday). See the program below. Anniversary Hill was given to Holyoke that year. HISTORY

For the Olmsteds in Holyoke presentation, you need to match the number on the map with the grid below. Tour around the city will consist of the four parks and one home.

VIDEO from Holyoke Media

LINK to a Patreon pay per view video on the Olmsted work in Holyoke from a general point of view. LINK to a Patreon pay per view video on the Olmsted work in Holyoke from a design map point of view. Then a collection of both at LINK.

1	Springdale Park
2	Pulaski Park
3	Jones Point Park
4	Elmwood Park
5	City Beautiful Plan
6	City Plan	(same as number 5)
7	Mount Tom Club House	200 Mountain View Drive
8	Wyckoff Park Neighborhood
9	Lewis Wyckoff	1040 Northampton Street
10	Joseph B Woodruff	28 Central Park Drive
11	Edward Twing 1923	62 Central Park Drive
12	Edward Twing 1925	198 and 208 Central Park Drive
13	Steiger Walking Paths, Gates, and Walls	125 135 145 155 185 Mountain View Drive
14	Albert Steiger	170 Mountain View Drive – (same as 13)
15	James Wakelin	1067 Northampton Street
16	Edward Towne	1021 Northampton Street
17	William Skinner II	1155 Northampton Street
18	George and William Prentiss	1425 Northampton Street
19	Joseph Towne	181 Linden Street
20	William Whiting farmland
21	Holyoke Contagious Disease Hospital	Cherry Street
22	Saint Jerome Cemetery	Northampton Street

Holyoke Bus Trip

stop	place	location	information
1	Congregation Rodphey Sholom	Forer Avenue / 1800 Northampton Street	information (about its cemetery)
2	Fairfield Avenue Local Historic District	Fairfield Avenue	information
3	Wistariahurst	Cabot Street / Beech Street	information
4	Holyoke Public Library	Cabot Street / Chestnut Street	information (not mine)

stop	place	location	information
5	Victory Theatre	Chestnut Street / Suffolk Street	information
6	Holyoke City Hall	High Street / Dwight Street	information
7	Veterans Park	Hampden Street / Chestnut Street	information
8	Richardsonian Train Station	Bowers Street / Lyman Street	information
9	Holyoke Canal System	Race Street (near Middle Street)	information
10	Holyoke Heritage State Park	Dwight Street	information
bonus	Holyoke High School	Beech Street	information
end	Congregation Rodphey Sholom	Forer Avenue / 1800 Northampton Street	information