Pioneer Valley Railroad Bridge over Westfield River is from 1910. It was made by the Boston Bridge Works. It is a Warren truss bridge. It is now part of the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail (LINK).
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Bridge number 60.36
Chicopee Memorial State Park
Cooley Brook Reservoir
Reservoirs were built there in 1893 and September 8 1927. The first dam had to replaced in 1914 due to a major breach. These were drinking water sources for Chicopee. The first reservoir held 5 million gallons in all. The Cooley Brook Reservoir was the second drinking water reservoir of Chicopee after the Abbey Reservoir. The CCC did projects there in the 1930s including trails and bridges.
EXTERNAL LINK to the modern state park
TRAIL MAP from the state park service
The city of Chicopee has an old picture of the reservoir. LINK
The Cooley Brook runs from the NE into Chicopee Reservoir and then into Lower Reservoir. The dams are in the SW of each. There are wetlands along the upper Cooley Brook area where there is also bird watching.
Lower Cooley Brook Reservoir
Cooley Brook
Nature Land on the Cooley Brook
Dogwood Trees
Bike Path
Beach
Homestead Avenue is the former Back Street.
123 Homestead Avenue is the Caleb Humeston home. It was made in the year 1800.
Kosciuszko Park in Holyoke
General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Park was dedicated May 21 1999.
The Mater Dolorosa Church was nearby.
South Hadley Center Congregational Church
Village Cemetery is also called Jenksville Cemetery. It was found on Windsor Street close to Chestnut Street.
The first burial in the cemetery is most likely Ezra Parsons. He died in 1818 and that might date the cemetery’s first year. It was enlarged in 1842.
Only problem with this story is that the next burial was not until 1822 and that makes more sense since the canal was made that year.
This cemetery was mostly moved into the Island Pond Cemetery in 1902. About 475 bodies and stones were moved in that year. The land of the fomer Village Cemetery was then given to the Ludlow Mills and they built workers homes on this land.
Dana 1801 as a town
Dana Common Historic and Archaeological District
Brown’s Evergreen Cemetery Site at Tamplin Rd Petersham
Dana Center Cemetery Site at Main St Petersham
Dana Baptist Meeting Hall Site 1800
Dana Congregational Church 1853
French Canadians in Holyoke
Quebec Genealogy
Immaculate Conception Church Campus and Neighborhood Tour
Our Lady of the Perpetual Help Church Campus and Neighborhood Tour
Enfield
Power Canals of Enfield
