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Mount Holyoke Fire Station

The Mount Holyoke Fire Station is still there but no longer used as a station.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1915 map

Fire Stations in Holyoke

There have been many fire stations in Holyoke.

station	location	information	start	end
Mount Tom	2 North Canal St	information		1976
Mount Holyoke	452 Main St	information
Emerald	62 Chestnut St	information
Reliance 1	177 to 178 High	information	1864	1885
Reliance 2		information	1886	1914
Homestead		information		still
Whiting		information	2003	still
	Northampton St	information
Central 1		information	1914	2001
Central 2		information	2001	still
Elmwood	490 South St	information
Dexter	Northampton St	information	1874
Hampden Street		information

Holyoke Water Power Company – Cabot Street Mill

The Holyoke Water Power Mill is a start up mill along Cabot Street that was made by the Holyoke Water Power Company.

1888 burned mill – Milan Warner IMAGE

In 1908 the Barlow Company is there making nickel and brass fixtures.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1884 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, and Holyoke Envelope

Sanborn 1889 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, B F Nichols Belt Manufactory, McCallum Constable Hosiery, and the National Blank Book Company

Sanborn 1895 map shows the Chadwick Seal, Whitmore Paper, B F Nichols Belt Manufactory, and the National Blank Book Company

Sanborn 1915 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill

Sanborn 1949 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill

Sanborn 1956 map shows that the Crocker-McElwain Co has the entire mill

The General Electric plant in Holyoke was at the southwestern end of the second level canal. General Electric plants on the Hudson River and the Housatonic River polluted those rivers from the 1930 to the 1970s. The pollutant was PCBs or polychlorinated biphenyls. It is not known if this site is polluted or not so it is a brownfield.

Production at the plant was by site within the plant so there was no segregation of duties by floors.

Sanborn map analysis:

for Sanborn 1915 map look under Farr Alpaca

Sanborn 1949 map

Sanborn 1956 map

Palace

Movie Theaters of Holyoke

The Palace was at 317 Main Street. It lasted from 1908 to 1917 as a Nickelodeon style theater.

Sanborn 1915 map

Wonderland

Movie Theaters of Holyoke

The Wonderland is a theater at 295 Main Street that lasted from 1910 to 1920 as a Nickelodeon style theater. For a while it was at 301 Main Street.

Sanborn 1915 map

Churchill Hall

Movie Theaters of Holyoke

Churchill Hall was at 677 High Street from 1921 to 1925. The Victory Theater used this location in 1919 as a theater.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1915 map shows 2 floors

Sanborn 1949 map shows a 5 floor building

Sanborn 1956 map shows that it is gone

Three Star Theater

Movie Theaters of Holyoke

The Three Star Theater was at 108 Lyman Street from 1911 to 1932. It was attached to the back of the Lenox Hotel which itself was across the street from the Richardson Train Station.

Sanborn map analysis:

Sanborn 1915 map

White and Wyckoff

The White and Wyckoff Mill made cards in postcards, greeting cards, and business cards. They were a division of the Western Tablet and Stationery Corp. with Edward White as president. The main mill is one Water Street near Cabot. In 1935 there was a mill 3 in Davenport Iowa.

Cowan

Sanborn map analysis:

Hampden Cotton Mill

The Hampden Cotton Mill is between the first and second canals. Its history is as such:

In 1853, Hampden Mills incorporated and the Hadley Falls Company built them a cotton mill. They ran 10 thousand spindles and employed 300 people. In 1854, Donald Chase MacKintosh (1819 to 1902) came from Scotland as a dyer – a boss dyer. In 1868 Donald MacKintosh was fired by the Hampden Mills. Then he started MacKintosh Company near the Parsons Paper Mill number 1 near the dam. Fire destroyed this small mill. He moved the mill to Northampton for a while and then he moved it back to Bigelow Street in Holyoke. In 1881 the name was changed to MacKintosh and Sons. In 1883 Crystal Spring Aqueduct Company started in the Hampden Mills. Finally, in 1888 the Hampden Mills went bankrupt. Donald MacKintosh bought the Hampden Mills.

For many years, they did cotton blends, then they did cotton only, and then they did cotton yarn (by 1918). In 1943 they had 300 workers but in 1945 a 6-day strike over wages happened. In 1952, MacKintosh Mill is losing money so they move to Clover South Carolina.