Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
1895 - Holyoke

Holyoke, a city of Hampden co., Mass., on the W bank of the Connecticut River, 8 miles N. of Springfield and 9 miles S. of Northampton. It is on the Connecticut River Railroad, and is a terminus of the Holyoke Branch of the New Haven & Northampton Railroad. A dam 1019 feet long has been built across the river, which falls 60 feet in the course of a mile and affords immense water-power. Holyoke is finely situated on the side of a hill and is surrounded by the river on all sides except the W It contains a city hall or town house, 5 national banks, 3 savings banks, 2 or 3 newspaper offices, 5 convents, a Catholic orphanage, 17 churches, a high school, a public library about 25 paper-mills, 7 cotton-factories, 6 woollen-mills, and manufactures of cutlery, machinery, files, screws, silk goods sash and blinds, tools, lumber, bicycles, carriages, bits trolleys, &c. It is stated that nearly 200 tons of paper, of all grades and varieties, are produced here in one day About 2000 operatives are employed in the manufacture of cotton goods, 1200 in that of paper, and 450 in that of cassimeres, doeskins, and other woollen cloths. Pop. in 1860, 4997; in 1870, 10,733; in 1880, 21,915; in 1890, 35,637.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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