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Chicopee Falls Canal

A partial tour of this area can be found at the Church Street tour.

History

1823 dam and canal started

1825 first mill

1826 second and third mills

1828 Chicopee Manufactory Company

1916 Johnson & Johnson purchases the Chicopee Manufactory Company to help make bandages for World War Two

1927 Johnson & Johnson builds the Chicopee Mill in Gainesville Georgia and calls the new mill and village the Chicopee – EXTERNAL LINK to the wonderful story

The Chicopee Manufactory firm is still alive as a subsidiary of Berry Global a maker of plastics products.

As a side trip you might want to visit what is left of the old Chicopee Falls Canal. (LOCATION) Nothing is left of the waterway itself but some of the latter additions to the mill complexes are still there.

There is a phase two of the development of the River Walk.

1894 Richards map

Dams at the Deady Bridge

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 A – map B – map C

United Folding Box Company

United Folding Box Company was formed in Holyoke during the 1920s.

They still exist over 100 years later. External LINK. They have only had two owners. The first was Henry Jarisch. The second is a joint firm.

Jarisch used United Folding Box Company and then later United Paper Box. The mill was at 528 Water Street. Jarisch was president and treasurer until his 1979 death. FINDAGRAVE

Sanborn map analysis

1884 map as the Union Manufacturers Company Paper Mill

1889 map as the Union Manufacturers Company Paper Mill

1895 map as the Connecticut River Paper Company (Powers Paper Co)

1915 map as the Riverside Mill number 3

1949 map as the United Folding Box Company

1956 map as the United Folding Box Company