Timeline of Holyoke, Massachusetts

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This is a timeline of the history of the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA.

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14th century

17th century

A post office mural depiction of Elizur Holyoke's surveying expedition, c. 1653-1660, from which the naming of Mount Holyoke originates Captain Alezue Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River Mural Overview.jpg
A post office mural depiction of Elizur Holyoke's surveying expedition, c. 1653-1660, from which the naming of Mount Holyoke originates

18th century

The former Crafts' Tavern, built in 1785, as it appeared in about 1925 Crafts Tavern, Holyoke, Massachusetts (c 1925).jpg
The former Crafts' Tavern, built in 1785, as it appeared in about 1925

19th century

The Counterfeiter's Hut - Money-Hole Hill, by Clifton Johnson, depicting the fake silver coining operation later exposed in 1815 The Counterfeiter's Hut - Money-Hole Hill (by Clifton Johnson).jpg
The Counterfeiter's Hut – Money-Hole Hill, by Clifton Johnson, depicting the fake silver coining operation later exposed in 1815
  • January 1: Workers go on strike during preliminary foundation work building the Holyoke Dam; when 20 returned to work a riot formed, and 25 men from the local militia were called in from Northampton to restore order. [18]
  • November 19: The first Holyoke Dam is completed, made of timbers, it collapses within hours of its gates closure. [19]
  • July 15 – August 15: 79 people in the city die of cholera, all but one being Irish, and all but two being Irish in the early squatters village of The Patch. By the end of August the cases would drop off, with 10 additional deaths. [21]
  • September 1: The first edition of the abolitionist Hampden Freeman is published by William L. Morgan, marking the beginning of the history of the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, its successor. [22] [23]
The second Holyoke Dam, as seen the Boston illustrated, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, in its October 4, 1851 edition Holyoke Dam (second), as seen in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, October 4, 1851.jpg
The second Holyoke Dam, as seen the Boston illustrated, Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion , in its October 4, 1851 edition
  • March 14: Holyoke incorporates as a town. [24]
  • March 20: First town meeting held. [3]
A view of Holyoke and South Hadley Falls from Chicopee by John B. Bachelder, from his 1856 Bathelder's Album of New England Scenery Holyoke and South Hadley Falls (1856).jpg
A view of Holyoke and South Hadley Falls from Chicopee by John B. Bachelder, from his 1856 Bathelder's Album of New England Scenery
  • December 17: The roof over City Hall is complete, and all other openings are sealed for the winter. [37]
On June 15, 1878, the Perkins Block (right), also known as the Hotel Jess, became one of the two receiving ends of the first public toll line, going from Holyoke to Springfield. Depot Square, Holyoke 1876.jpg
On June 15, 1878, the Perkins Block (right), also known as the Hotel Jess, became one of the two receiving ends of the first public toll line, going from Holyoke to Springfield.
  • June 15: The world's first public-use toll line begins service between Springfield and Holyoke, at the Springfield Telephone and Automatic Signal Company's first telephone exchange in the Hotel Jess/Perkins Block. [42]
A circus parades down High Street, c. 1880-89 Circus in Holyoke, 1880s.png
A circus parades down High Street, c. 1880-89
  • May 2: Clark W. Bryan publishes the first issue of Good Housekeeping , with offices in Holyoke until March 1887, when Bryan's firm moved to Springfield. [51]
  • August: Oren D. Allyn, the "father of Oakdale," begins selling properties in the neighborhood for which he would develop about 300 hundred homes. [52]
  • June 5: Clemens Herschel writes William Unwin a letter describing his development of the Venturi meter, the first accurate means of measuring large-scale flows. [54]
  • September: Likely preceding this date, Holyoke's first Polish settlers are recorded, with the arrival of the family of Joseph Czarnecki. [8] :123,126
  • October 11: A group of delegates for the first Pan-American Conference make a stop at the Holyoke train station and briefly tour the city and its factories. Among them are officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. [55]
The Holyoke YMCA gym building where volleyball was first invented by William G. Morgan in 1895; the building stood at the northwest corner of High and Appleton from 1892 to 1943 YMCA Building of Holyoke, where Volleyball was first played.jpg
The Holyoke YMCA gym building where volleyball was first invented by William G. Morgan in 1895; the building stood at the northwest corner of High and Appleton from 1892 to 1943
  • February 9: William G. Morgan, Director of Physical Education at the Holyoke YMCA invents mintonette, at the suggestion of others the sport is subsequently renamed volleyball. [61]
  • December 1: Harry Houdini performs one of his first handcuff escapes at a police station, allowing the Holyoke Police Department to handcuff and place him in a separate room, escaping within minutes. This is erroneously sometimes referred to as his first such escape or his first coverage in the press of such a feat, however later chronological research reveals this was his 6th such stunt, and that he had often written such press releases himself. [62]
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Searchtool.svg Holyoke: Ward 4 Municipal Bath, Public Baths in the United States, via Harvard Art Museums
President McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton leaving the Summit House on Mount Tom, June 20, 1899 President and Mrs McKinley at Mount Tom Summit House, Massachusetts (1899).png
President McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton leaving the Summit House on Mount Tom, June 20, 1899
  • February 26: A meeting is held between the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Holyoke and counterparts in other cities to form the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique, a Franco-American benefit society. [65]
  • May: The first public bath-house opens, following the passage of a motion in the previous year introduced by Alderman Moritz Ruther, implementing such a hygiene program as plumbing was not yet ubiquitous. Each of what were eventually 4 bath-houses had 2 showers and large wooden pools 20 feet wide by 50 feet long, two to five feet deep. None of these bath-houses had hot water, nevertheless by 1902, a patronage of 40,000 was reported among the four. [66]
  • June 20: President William McKinley and First Lady Ida Saxton, on a visit to William Whiting, take the Holyoke St. Rwy's Rockrimmon parlor car to Mountain Park, and then the funicular Mount Tom Railroad to the Summit House. Though others would campaign there, to date McKinley remains the only sitting president to formally visit the city. [67] [lower-alpha 1]
  • October 18: Steiger's opens its own department store building, with an ornate beaux arts façade and interiors, it was Albert Steiger's first standalone store, and the first such block dedicated solely to the sale of dry goods in Holyoke. [68] [69]

20th century

Thaddeus Cahill and the console of the Telharmonium, the world's first electromechanic instrument, first publicly demonstrated in Holyoke on March 16, 1906 Console for the Telharmonium in the Cabot St Music Plant of the New England Electric Music Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts.jpg
Thaddeus Cahill and the console of the Telharmonium, the world's first electromechanic instrument, first publicly demonstrated in Holyoke on March 16, 1906
  • February 11: Dr. Henry E. Chaput publishes the first edition of La Justice , Holyoke's longest running French-language newspaper. [80]
  • August 4: Under the supervision of engineer George E. Pellissier, the Holyoke Street Railway becomes the first railroad operator in the Americas to use thermite welding to lay track. [81]
  • March 16: Inventor Thaddeus Cahill gives a remote concert demonstrating his Telharmonium transmitting synthesized music over telephone wires from his Cabot Street laboratory to an audience in the Hotel Hamilton. It marked the first official public unveiling of what was the first electromechanical musical instrument, an early counterpart of synthesizers that weighed more than 200 tons. [79]
  • May: Chen Jintao, the future founder of the Bank of China and then a recent graduate of Yale University, spends a month in Holyoke studying its papermaking industry and infrastructure for economic research, and is received both paper magnates, as well the city's engineer, who offer him insight into the workings of the Holyoke Reservoir System. [84]
  • June 9: The Massachusetts Legislature approves the sale of Smith's Ferry by Northampton officially to Holyoke for $55,000. For his advocacy in connecting the village to Holyoke, stationery manufacturer Joseph Wyckoff is given the key to the city. [88] [89]
  • November 2: The Holyoke Caledonian Benefit Club announces its intent to form a pipe band in the Springfield Republican . The Holyoke Caledonian Pipe Band, which began regularly meeting in the following year, is today the oldest pipe band in continuous existence in the United States. [90]
A "Raising of the Flag" event is held, with a procession from the Public Library to City Hall, May 5, 1917 Raising of the Flag event in front of Holyoke City Hall, May 5, 1917.jpg
A "Raising of the Flag" event is held, with a procession from the Public Library to City Hall, May 5, 1917
  • September 16: Charles F. Willard, the first barnstormer, as well as first to fly a plane shot down by bullet, and first American pilot of a 3-passenger flight, performed an exhibition for the YMCA at Highland Park, for a crowd of more than 7,000, and many other thousands who watched his flight from the Connecticut River and South Hadley. [91]
Delegates of the Honorary Commission of the National Association of Raw Silk Industry of Japan, visiting the main mill of William Skinner & Sons, March 24, 1919 The Honorary Commission of the National Association of Raw Silk Industry of Japan visits main mill of William Skinner and Sons, Holyoke, Massachusetts.png
Delegates of the Honorary Commission of the National Association of Raw Silk Industry of Japan, visiting the main mill of William Skinner & Sons, March 24, 1919
  • March: William Skinner & Sons completes the largest silk mill, under one roof, in the world. [93] [94]
  • April 27: New Jersey Governor and then-presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson holds a rally at City Hall, concluding a long day of touring in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, among other stops. The evening also includes speeches by Dudley Field Malone and Mayor of Cleveland Newton D. Baker. [95]
  • November 8: The New York Philharmonic holds the first of its annual tour stops to Holyoke City Hall, where it continues to perform annually until 1926. [96]
  • November 18: Naturalist and writer John Burroughs tours the paper mills in Holyoke, as a guest of Clifton Johnson who later writes, "Burroughs was impressed by the marvelous processes and the long time it must have taken to evolve such magic methods, but I think he was relieved when the tour was over...He pitied those who had to work in such an environment." [97] [98]
  • April 5: Former US President and future Chief Justice William Howard Taft makes a stop in the city, visits the then-recently opened Hotel Nonotuck (today known as the Holyoke House or Roger Smith Hotel), and gives a speech on the institution of the presidency at Holyoke High School. [100]
  • July 24: Holyoke opens the first modern farmer's market in Western Massachusetts, a novelty among region's cities at that time. [101]
  • November 18: The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the first and only of its kind in the city, is dedicated. [102]
Holyoke, the World's Paper City, 1920, by Vernon Howe Bailey Holyoke, The World's Paper City, by Vernon Howe Bailey (1920).jpg
Holyoke, the World's Paper City, 1920, by Vernon Howe Bailey
  • January 20: The first issue of Holyoke's first and longest-running Polish language newspaper, the Gwiazda or The Polish Weekly-"Star" is published by Stanisław Walczak. [112] [113]
The skyline of downtown Holyoke from Dwight and Race St, circa 1925, the Mount Tom Summit House visible in the distance Looking towards Downtown, Holyoke, Massachusetts (c. 1925).jpg
The skyline of downtown Holyoke from Dwight and Race St, circa 1925, the Mount Tom Summit House visible in the distance
  • March 15: The United States Postal Service, in tandem with Indian Motorcycle of Springfield, carries out its first experimental aircraft and motorcycle courier service on a route through Holyoke, Northampton, Westfield, Springfield, and Hartford. [115]
  • March 30: The Goetz Silk Manufacturing Company dissolves. [58]
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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Civic Holyoke #1, by Albert Labonte, silent footage of Holyoke and City Hall shot in 1937; via Holyoke History Room
High Street from the corner of Appleton in October 1941, with the YMCA building in the foreground High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts 1941.jpg
High Street from the corner of Appleton in October 1941, with the YMCA building in the foreground
The view of looking north on High Street from Appleton, circa 1955 Looking towards Downtown, Holyoke, Massachusetts, High Street from Appleton (c. 1955).jpg
The view of looking north on High Street from Appleton, circa 1955
  • January 26–27: In cooperation with the governments of Puerto Rico and Argentina, the Kinsley Chemical Company of Cleveland, Noble & Wood Machine Company of Hoosick, New York, the Chemical Paper Company of Holyoke, and Holyoke Transcript-Telegram initiate the first production of bagasse newsprint paper, with the batch being manufactured and printed before numerous journalists, more than 100 sugar, paper, and chemical industrial magnates, and representatives of 17 countries, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Australia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, China, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. [130] [131] [132]
  • November 16–17: Despite preservation efforts the 165 year-old Crafts' Tavern, already slated for demolition for the new John J. Lynch School, is thoroughly damaged over two nights by 20 juvenile vandals residing in the Highlands neighborhood; they break an estimated 400 panes of glass and tore doors, windows, and trim from plaster. [133] [134]
  • December 1: As a part of the newly built Jewish community center on Maple Street, the Sons of Zion Synagogue is formally dedicated. [135]
A view of a washout looking down Jackson Street from High, August 20, 1955, after the 1955 Connecticut floods View down Jackson Street, washed out following flood of 1955 (Holyoke, Massachusetts).jpg
A view of a washout looking down Jackson Street from High, August 20, 1955, after the 1955 Connecticut floods
  • March 16: Senator John F. Kennedy receives the first St. Patrick's Parade honor as outstanding American citizen of Irish parentage; the award would subsequently be renamed in his honor following his death. [143]
  • April 1: The Massachusetts General Court dedicates the Joseph E. Muller Bridge to its namesake. [144]
Mayor Resnic dedicates Holyoke Water Power Park, with a "Hercules" turbine wheel seen here, along with Robert E. Barrett, and William Skinner II, September 9, 1960 Dedication of Holyoke Water Power Park, 1960.jpg
Mayor Resnic dedicates Holyoke Water Power Park, with a "Hercules" turbine wheel seen here, along with Robert E. Barrett, and William Skinner II, September 9, 1960
  • November 15: U.S. Representative from Michigan Gerald Ford makes a dinner speech at the Roger Smith Hotel during the annual meeting of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, criticizing defense spending and discussing other domestic issues being raised in the next session of Congress. [145]
  • December 17: Mount Tom Ski Area opens for its first season. [146]
  • January 13: With the death of longtime editor Roméo-Dadace Raymond in late 1963, and a decline in New England French in the Greater Holyoke-Springfield area, Holyoke's longest-running French language newspaper La Justice publishes its final issue. [151] [152]
  • August 28: J. Herman Stursberg, descendant of the founders of Germania Mills and the Holyoke German Colony, announces the closure of their Livingston Worsted Fabrics line, citing globalization and prices being undercut by imports produced with lower labor standards. [153]
  • January 15: Holyoke switches to a single ZIP code, making 01041 only a PO box code and putting 01042 out of service. ZIP codes 01042 through 01049 remained reserved but unassigned due to prior expected growth of the city. [155]
High Street seen from Division Street, shortly before High was made a one-way street, circa 1970 High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts (c. 1970).jpg
High Street seen from Division Street, shortly before High was made a one-way street, circa 1970
  • September 27: The Junior League of Holyoke opens the Children's Museum at Holyoke to a crowd of attendees in a storefront at 171 High Street. [165]
  • November 17: The federal government buys out the Holyoke and Westfield Railroad for $1.13 million dollars, with a majority going to the municipal government; at the time of its sale, 87.5% of the railroad's stock had been retained by the City. [166]
  • June 24–26: The first annual Le Festival Franco-Americain is held at the Holyoke Mall; sponsored by 27 local churches and groups as well as the French and Canadian governments, the three-day festival includes food, music, films, and traditional crafts. [168]
  • January 1: Following the opening of their modern store in the Holyoke Mall and reduced foot traffic, Steiger's closes its High Street store, the chain's first standalone store building, after 84 years. [170]
  • May 19: An American shad is caught by one Bob Thibodo in the waters below the Holyoke Dam, which is later found to be the world record holder for the largest caught, weighing in at 11 pounds and 4 ounces (567 grams). [171]
  • June 7–9: 15,000 attend the last Le Festival Franco-Americain held in Holyoke Heritage State Park. Despite modest success in Mardi Gras festivities in Chicopee in the following year, the 1986 event would be the last Le Festival hosted in Holyoke. [172]
  • July 1: Failing to resolve a labor dispute before the previous fiscal year's end, the Holyoke Street Railway ends bus service for the PVTA, unannounced. Despite calls from the Authority for the operator to renegotiate, and attempts to secure other busing contracts, the previous day marked its last day of service. [174]
  • January 21: After 144 years, a longer run than even The Boston Post , the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram abruptly ceases publication. It had been known by that name as a daily paper for 110 years. [176]
  • December 7: After an extensive grassroots fundraising effort to keep it in Holyoke, the former Mountain Park merry-go-round (PTC #80) debuts its inaugural ride at Holyoke Heritage State Park as the Holyoke Merry-Go-Round. [177]
  • March: Steiger's closes the last of its stores following an acquisition by May Department Stores. At the time it is described as the last family-owned chain of department stores in New England. The Holyoke Mall location subsequently reopens as a Filene's. [178]

21st century

Holyoke, Chicopee, West Springfield, and Westover Air Force Base are photographed from the International Space Station, March 17, 2011 Holyoke, Chicopee, and Westover Air Force Base from International Space Station (2011).jpeg
Holyoke, Chicopee, West Springfield, and Westover Air Force Base are photographed from the International Space Station, March 17, 2011

Notes

  1. President Coolidge would visit Holyoke briefly on August 21, 1925, however his trip was done in secret; McKinley, to date, is the only visiting president with a public reception.
  2. Other paper-related businesses still operate in Holyoke, however Parsons Paper was the last involved in the production of paper from pulp, i.e. the last paper mill.

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As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 39,880 people, 15,361 households, and 9,329 families residing in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The population density was 723.6/km2 (1,874/mi²). There were 16,384 housing units at an average density of 277.2/km2 (718.6/mi²).

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  7. "Holyoke Cemetery Being Neglected, Observers Feel, Rock Valley Burying Ground Has Become Weed-Grown Patch, Two Revolutionary Soldiers Rest There". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. June 5, 1938. p. 5.
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  12. "D. A. R. Unveils Tablet on Old Crafts Tavern; Mrs. Louise Peabody, State Regent, Carries Out Ceremony at Holyoke – Address by Prof Boas". Springfield Republican. February 13, 1927. p. 15.
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  17. "Indian Skeletons". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. December 17, 1847. p. 2. A correspondent at Ireland Depot Village (the new city) informs us that the workmen in excavating for the Canal there, yesterday, discovered the skeletons of four Indians, in a sitting posture, with their faces towards the East. Beside them were found a Mortar and Pestle of stone, such as were used by the Indians in pounding corn. What was quite as singular as any thing was, that a subterranean channel ran completely around the skeletons.
  18. Johnson, Clifton, ed. (1936). "Holyoke, the Paper City". Hampden County, 1636-1936. Vol. II. American Historical Society. p. 667. OCLC   9479870.
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  21. "Cholera at the New City". Massachusetts Spy. Worcester, Mass. August 22, 1849. p. 3. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican informs that there have been, at the New City at South Hadley Falls, 79 deaths of Cholera for the month ending Aug. 14h. Every one of these were Irish, and all except two lived in the Irish settlement called the Patch. During the first two weeks, in nearly all the cases, the physicians were informed by the friends, that the patients had been drunk immediately previous...Mr. Gage, an American died of cholera Thursday evening. This is the first case among the American population.
    • "Cholera Chronicle". Vermont Phoenix. Brattleboro, Vt. August 31, 1849. p. 3. In the New City, the cholera has very much abated. There have been only 8 or 10 cases the past week.
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  28. Burt, Henry M. (1874). "Ingleside". Burt's guide through the Connecticut Valley to the White mountains and the river Saguenay. Springfield, Mass.: New England Publishing Company. pp. 72–73. OCLC   2579496.
    • Date taken from pamphlet, Ingleside; This Delightful Resort. (Holyoke, Mass.) Transcript Printing House.
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  37. "Notre City Hall...". Courrier de Holyoke (in French). Vol. I, no. 11. M. M. Mitivier. December 17, 1874. Notre City Hall est maintenant à l'abri du mauvais temps. Les toîts sont terminés et les ouvertures closes pour l'hiver. On reprendra les travaux au printemps, et d'aprés les plans qui viennent d'être fournis par des architectes de New-York, la bâtisse sera probablement terminée pour l'hiver prochain. Ce sera l'une des plus belles bâtisses de l'état.
  38. "By Telegraph". The Evening Post. New York. July 26, 1875. p. 4. The fire at Ingleside, the summer resort near Springfield, Mass. proves to have been the work of an incendiary.
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  49. "Holyoke's Fine Trolly System; Its Expansion From a Two-Mile Horse Car Line in 1884 to Its Present Great Proportions". Springfield, Mass. September 2, 1923. p. 37.
  50. Erdman, Andrew. Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay, Cornell University Press, 2012 pp. 30–32, 36–38, 47, 93–94, 100–03, 114–15, 139–43, 212–14, 222–23.
  51. "When 'Good Housekeeping' Was Almost A, Well, Social Movement". Boston: WGBH-FM. May 6, 2016. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018.
  52. "Attractive Oakdale". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. August 24, 1886. p. 5. Oakdale, the new section of the city located at the southern slope of Fairmount, was a barren tract of land less than two years ago giving little promises of becoming the attractive spot which it is to-day. One year ago last spring O. D. Allyn, the owner of the property, began to grade the land, dividing it up into city lots, and the following August he had his first house ready for sale...
    • "Oren D. Allyn, former Holyoke official, dead; served on Board of Public Workers—Well-Known Real Estate Dealer—Expert on Rose Culture". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. January 6, 1929. p. 4.
  53. "Hampden County. Holyoke- Another Building Section Opened". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. October 18, 1887. p. 5. John J. Prew, who recently bought 11 acres of land on the river road, just south of the driving park has divided the tract into 64 building lots, each of which is 50 by 125 feet in size. Three streets have been laid out, two to run due west from the road and to connect with a third running north and south. The first two will be known as Temple and Vernon streets, but the third is still unnamed. Mr. Prew has named this section Springdale and means to make it a very attractive spot. He sold five lots last week to Germans and will probably sell others in a few days. These men will build houses on their lots and others will probably follow their example. Springdale is nicely located for men who are employed in the mills at South Holyoke and they can own their own houses at comparatively small outlay
  54. "Invention of the Venturi Meter". Nature. 136 (3433): 254. August 17, 1935. Bibcode:1935Natur.136Q.254.. doi: 10.1038/136254a0 . [The article] reproduces a letter from Herschel to the late Dr. Unwin describing his invention of the Venturi Meter. The letter is dated June 5, 1888, and addressed from the hydraulic engineer's office of the Holyoke Water Power Co., Mass. In his letter, Herschel says he tested a one-inch Venturi Meter, under 210 ft. head: 'I am now satisfied that here is a new and pregnant principle to be applied to the art of gauging fluids, inclusive of fluids such as compressed air, illuminating or fuel gases, steam, etc. Further, that the shape of the meter should be trumpet-shaped in both directions; such a meter will measure volumes flowing in either direction, which in certain localities becomes a useful attribute...'
  55. "How They Fared at Holyoke; A Look at the Big Dam and a Run Through a Model Paper Mill". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. October 12, 1889. p. 4. Carlos Martinez Silva of the Colombia delegation perhaps enjoyed the trip to Holyoke most, for Manager Curtis secured him a seat on the locomotive, where he could drink in the beautiful scenery to the best advantage. It was the best view of the Connecticut river the party had had, and it was fully appreciated.
    • "Our Honored Visitors; Delegates of the Americas; Their Handsome Reception Here; What They Saw and How They Saw It". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. October 12, 1889. p. 4. Argentina...Bolivia...Brazil...Chili [sic]...Colombia...Costa Rica...Guatemala...Honduras...Mexico...Nicaragua...Peru...Salvador...Uruguay...Venezuela...
  56. Gabler, George L. (October 1903). "Naismith or Gulick?". Holyoke YMCA Bulletin via Springfield College. Dr. James A. Naismith of the University of Kansas was the originator of basket ball. Yours truly, G. L. Gabler, M. D.
    • "Dr. George Gabler, Long a Physician, 81". The New York Times. August 29, 1950. p. 27.
    • Karen Christensen; David Levinson, eds. (2005). Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport. Berkshire Publishing via omnilogos. There have been intermittent claims that Naismith was not the person who invented the game of basketball. Proponents of this alternate theory suggest that a friend of Naismith, Dr. George Gabler, actually created the sport in the Holyoke (Massachusetts) YMCA in either 1885 or 1890. Gabler presumably then showed Naismith the game, and Naismith taught the game at the YMCA in Springfield. Gabler, however, never challenged claims that Naismith invented the sport, and it seems unlikely that this alternate scenario occurred. Nevertheless, details appeared in the Holyoke Daily Transcript in the 1940s.
    • Peterson, Robert (1990). Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years. Lincoln, Ne.: University of Nebraska Press. p. 185. ISBN   0803287720.
  57. "Holyoke". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. August 8, 1891. p. 6. The first electric car was run over the road yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock and it ran very well. The car was run the whole length of the line and people gathered on the street corners to watch its progress. Superintendent Loomis and some of the directors occupied front seats and smiled their approval. The horses along the line did not seem to mind the cars much
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  61. Bilis, Madeline (February 9, 2017). "Throwback Thursday: When Volleyball Was Invented in Massachusetts". Boston. On February 9, 1895, a man named William G. Morgan invented volleyball, which he called mintonette, at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
  62. Ruth, Brandon (1994). The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini. Toronto: Random House of Canada. ISBN   9780394224152.
    • Cox, John (2018). "The New Houdini Chronology". Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
    • Tynan, Trudy (November 1, 1995). "Houdini a No-Show at City Hall". Associated Press (AP). 'That was his first real mention in the press,' said Sidney Radner, a master magician who now owns most of the surviving Houdini memorabilia.
    • Posnanski, Joe (2020). The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini. Simon & Schuster. p. 103. ISBN   9781501137242. Then it was off to Holyoke, where he received eerily similar praise: 'It makes no difference with Mr. Houdini what kind of handcuffs are produced,' the reported wrote. 'He unlocks them all with as much ease as if they were strings around his wrists.' Why do both stories sound alike? Because Houdini wrote them. He wrote all the stories that appeared in newspapers in the early days.
  63. "Albert Steiger, Well Known As Merchant, Dies; Operator of Local, Holyoke and Hartford Stores Was Born in Germany—Began Career at 13". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. September 10, 1938. pp. 1, 5.
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  66. "Holyoke". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. May 27, 1899. p. 8. It is expected that the new public bath-house will be ready for use the first of next week "Holyoke, Massachusetts". Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor. Vol. IX. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office (GPO). 1904. pp. 1322–1323.
  67. "Aged Man, M'Kinley Stopped Car Carriage to Greet Him; On Top of Mt. Tom, Presidential Party Takes a View Of a Delightful Country–Other Cantonians in Massachusetts". The Repository. Canton, Ohio. June 20, 1899. p. 4.
  68. "Holyoke". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. October 19, 1899. p. 10. Albert Steiger & Co's new dry-goods store, the first in Holyoke to be devoted strictly to dry goods, was opened last evening, and from opening to closing time was pakced with people. The building is a decided architectural addition to the city
  69. "Steiger Block at Holyoke; Handsome Building Will be the First in City Devoted to Dry Goods". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. September 8, 1899.
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  73. "Holyoke Welcomes Bryan; Great Crowd and Enthusiam; City Hall Not Large Enough to Contain All Who Wanted to Hear the Nebraskan--His Discussion of the Issues". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. February 4, 1900. p. 2.
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    • Fairhurst, Alice (11 November 2019). "The Matheson Automobile". Clan Matheson. The Matheson Motor Car Company was founded by two Michigan brothers, Charles W. (1876-1940) and Frank F. (1871-1967) Matheson. The car was noted for its Overhead Cam engine design and in 1901 was documented as the first car with a hemispherical "Hemi" cylinder head, designed by the gifted Charles Greuter.
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  75. "Holyoke Fountain Dedicated; Granite Drinking Fountain on City Hall Lawn - Gift of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. November 10, 1901. p. 5.
  76. "'Mother Jones'; Ridicules 'Miners' Victory' and Substantiates Position of the Socialist Labor Party. What She Said". Daily People. New York. October 29, 1902. p. 2.
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  78. "End of Holyoke Strike; Eagle Lodge Gives Up Fight; to Return to Work To-Morrow; Enthusiasm Over the Result". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. August 19, 1903. p. 4.
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  81. "Worcester Polytechnic". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. January 30, 1905. p. 9. The speaker described the work of rail welding on the Holyoke street railway lines, this road being the first road in the United States to make use of thermit welded jounts.
    • "Thermit Rail Welding in Holyoke". Street Railway Journal. XXV (7). New York: McGraw Publishing Company: 317–318. February 18, 1905. G. E. Pellissier, civil engineer of the Holyoke Street Railway Company, presented on Jan. 27 a paper before the Civil Engineers' Society of Worcester Polytechnic Institute on thermit [sic] welding...When the thermit process was introduced in the United States the Holyoke Street Railway Company decided to try it on a mile of track which was about to be reconstructed, and accordingly an order for 160 joints was placed with the Goldschmidt Thermit Company...The welding was commenced on Aug. 8, 1904...The work...was the first piece of track in the United States laid with thermit joints
    • Pellissier, George E. (December 24, 1910). "Welding Entire Rail Sections at Holyoke, Mass". Electric Railway Journal . XXXVI (26). New York: McGraw Publishing Company: 1245–1246.
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  84. "Visiting Holyoke Mills; Chintao Chen, Representative of the Chinese Government, Making a Special Study of the Paper Industry of Holyoke". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. May 24, 1906. p. 13.
  85. Wallace, Francis (1949). The Notre Dame Story. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. pp. 209–210.
  86. "He Had Something". The Catholic Digest. Vol. 7. College of St. Thomas. 1942. They[, the church deacons,] were not a little shocked to see a man wearing a Roman collar energetically thumping away on the keys of their organ. One deacon had a remark to make when the recital was finished. 'Brother,' he said, 'you've got something there'"
  87. "Notre Dame Victory March". Game Day. University of Notre Dame. Archived from the original on September 15, 2019.
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    • "3 Passengers in Aeroplane; Charles F. Willard Establishes Record For America". The Sun. Baltimore, Md. August 15, 1910. p. 1. New York. Aug. 14 —Charles F. Willard in a Curtiss aeroplane, flew with three passengers and himself for 500 yards at Mineola, L. I. this evening. This is the first three passenger flight recorded in America. With his brother, W. H. Willard, R. F. Patterson and Archibald Albin aboard he ascended prettily and skimmed the distance at a height of 20 feet.
    • "Charles F. Willard, Who is Trying to Perfect the Monoplane; Bullet Hit Airship of Boston Aviator; Charles F. Willard of Hull Has Become Prominent in Aeronautics". Boston Journal. Boston, Mass. June 2, 1910. p. 3. It was a Boston man who figured in the first case recorded of an aeroplane brought to earth by a bullet...Charles F. Willard, whose machine was wrecked in Joplin, Mo., during a cross-country flight
    • AP News (February 2, 1977). "Charles F. Willard Is Dead". The New York Times. New York. p. 17.
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    • "[Advertisement] Curtiss Aviation Meet; Highland Park, Holyoke; Charles F. Willard, Aviator; Saturday, September 17, 3:30 PM". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. September 15, 1910. p. 1.
    • "Holyoke Aviation Meet; Willard Makes Two Flights; Crowd of 7000 in Attendance; Many Others Get a Free View—Event Successful in Every Way". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. September 18, 1910. p. 12.
  91. "New Board of Trade Rooms; The Fine New Quarters of the Active Organization in Holyoke, Western New England's Biggest Manufacturing City". Western New England. Vol. I, no. 10. September 1911. p. 269. Some ground for ambitious hopes for the future was shown at the opening noon-day luncheon of the season on September sixth when William Jennings Bryan gave the address. There can never be a bigger crowd at any of the luncheons for the rooms were packed full
    • "Bryan Speaks at Holyoke; Greeted by a Big Audience at High School Auditorium, Tells of Signs of the Times". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. September 7, 1911. p. 1.
  92. "William Skinner & Sons Complete Largest Single Silk Mill in the Country". The American Silk Journal. Vol. XXXI. New York: Clifford & Lawton. March 1912. p. 40.
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  94. "Wilson Rally for Holyoke; Plans for Reception of New Jersey Governor". Springfield Republican. April 27, 1912. p. 9.
    • "Wilson is on the Ground; The New Jersey Governor and Clark Men Making Speeches". Kansas City Star. Kansas City, MO. April 27, 1912. p. 2.
    • Arthur Stanley Link, ed. (1977). The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 24. Princeton University Press. p. 367. OCLC   5030832. From the time that he was cheered wildly by the students of Holy Cross College, Worcester, whom he addressed in the forenoon, until he closed his strenuous day in Holyoke City Hall late tonight, in his campaign for the Democratic nomination...
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  96. "Hadley". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. November 19, 1912. p. 13. John Burroughs, the author and naturalist, was the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Johnson in Hockanum
  97. Johnson, Clifton (1922). John Burroughs Talks; His Reminisciences and Comments; As reported by Clifton Johnson. Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press; Houghton Mifflin Company. p.  356. On Monday we visited friends at Smith College and had lunch with the girls at one of the dormitories. Later we went to Holyoke and were shown through a big paper-mill. Burroughs was impressed by the marvelous processes and the long time it must have taken to evolve such magic methods, but I think he was relieved when the tour was over and he could get away from the steam and odors, the turmoil and clatter. He pitied those who had to work in such an environment.
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  99. "Taft 'Out in the Woods' on Presidential Situation; Speaks at Reception at Hotel Nonotuck—Not in Favor of Conscription". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. March 30, 1916. p. 12. Former President William H. Taft paid Holyoke a visit yesterday and was given a warm welcome by Holyoke people. In the afternoon an informal public reception was given him at the Hotel Nonotuck, a large number of people taking the opportunity of meeting him. Later he gave a lecture on 'The presidency' at the high school.
    • "Why People Like Him". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. April 6, 1916. p. 8. The personality of the man and the breadth and good temper of his speeches pleases democrats quite as much as the republicans—so it was in Holyoke Wednesday evening with those who saw Mr. Taft at the high school auditorium and in the Holyoke club. Especially appreciated was Mr. Taft's remark that Mr. Roosevelt 'places the presidents of the United States in two classes, one of the Lincoln class and the other the Buchanan'– and added, 'he puts himself in the Lincoln class and me in the Buchanan.' This was said with the utmost good nature and it was fact.
  100. "Holyoke Sets Precedent, Public Market Opens To-Day". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. July 24, 1917. p. 10. When the public market opens this morning it will mean that Holyoke is the first city in Western Massachusetts to adopt this plan of bringing producer and consumer together.
  101. "Byzantine Dedication; Greek Church at Holyoke". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. November 18, 1917. p. 5.
  102. "Speeches Open Campaign; Franklin D. Roosevelt and James G. Blaine, Jr., Address Packed City Hall". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. May 20, 1918. p. 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, and James G. Blaine Jr., of the American Red Cross campaign for $90,000 last night with addresses to an audience that filled city hall.
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  104. "Japanese Raw Silk Men Arrive at New York; Delegation Welcomed At Pennsylvania Station". Silk. Vol. XII, no. 3. New York: Silk Publishing Company. March 1919. p. 36A.
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    • "Weddings: Angelopoulos—Christopoulos". Norwich Morning Bulletin. Norwich, Conn. May 17, 1920. p. 6. ...in the presence of nearly 200 guests who came from Holyoke, Mass., New York, Danielson[ , Conn.], Newar, N. J., Attleboro and Woburn, Mass...The couple were attended by Christ Bress, editor of the Greek weekly newspaper, The Voice of Greece, of Holyoke, Mass., who was best man
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