It started on Main Street at the southeast corner with Appleton Street but it ended up at the northeast corner of Elm and Appleton Streets. This move happened in 1890. This Appleton Street church was still there in the 1950s. The origin of the church in Holyoke is known to be in 1853 but the location was never a set place. In 1869 it had its own building on Main Street.
In 1968 the United Methodist Church of Holyoke South Hadley and Granby was formed. It is on Carew Street of South Hadley. LINK
for the Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church – see LINK
Carver Sawmill from H I Carver and A E Carver – structures in Ludlow and reservoir mostly in Granby – on the Stony Brook – within Granby there is a canal from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir – grist mill is along the canal – W Carver, G Carver, and E and H Carver all live very close by
Sikes Cemetery is on Munsing Street. It is about from the year 1772. It was given then as a gift from Benjamin Sikes as the first burial ground of Ludlow. Ludlow was settled in 1751 and thus earlier burials would be in Springfield. Ludlow would be a district in 1774 and a town in 1775. Thus this cemetery gift was to the settlers of Ludlow who were acting as members of a town but formally it was still Springfield. It was at first called the Center Cemetery and then the Old Center Cemetery when the Center Cemetery was made.
A wooden fence was placed around it in 1782 and a stone wall in 1865. At 244 Munsing Street is an 1844 home. FINDAGRAVE Walter Corbin did survey this cemetery and provided much information.
Sarah Sikes has a footstone that is engraved onto the back of her daughter’s headstone. Hannah Sikes her daughter is the burial in front of her. A very unique approach to headstone and footstone display. First and only that I have seen.
Agawam Canal was made in 1839 and the Southworth Mill was the first mill on the canal (1839). They would make a brick mill in 1879. The canal would last 90 years and was filled in in 1929.
Agawam Paper Mill
Mittineague Paper Mill
Strathmore Paper Mill is the 1911 merger of the Mittineague and the Woronoco.
