Chicopee, Massachusetts Chicopee, Massachusetts The former Chicopee High School The former Chicopee High School Official seal of Chicopee, Massachusetts Chicopee, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Chicopee, Massachusetts - Chicopee, Massachusetts Chicopee (/ t k pi/ chik- -pee) is a town/city located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 55,298, making it the second biggest city in Western Massachusetts after Springfield.
Chicopee uses the nickname "Crossroads of New England" as part of a business-development marketing campaign.
The communities of Chicopee Center (Cabotville), Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, Fairview, Smith Highlands, Aldenville, Burnett Road, and Westover are positioned in the city.
2.1 Nayasett (Cabotville and Chicopee Falls) The town/city is titled after the Chicopee River, whose mouth empties into the Connecticut River on in its boundaries.
"Chicopee" is a Nipmuc word, probably from chekee ("violent") and pe ("waters") in most Algonquian dialects, with reference to rapids.
The Nipmucs were the indigenous citizens of the lands that today make up the City of Chicopee, before to the arrival of European colonists.
Nayasett (Cabotville and Chicopee Falls) Chicopee Falls In 1636, William Pynchon purchased territory from the Agawam Indians on the east side of the Connecticut River and moved from Roxbury to Springfield to found the first settlement in the region that comprises the territory of today's Chicopee Center (Cabotville).
Nayasett (Nipmuc for "at the small point/angle") was the name given to Chicopee Center and Chicopee Falls.
The foundry was assembled at Skenungonuck (Nipmuc for "green fields") Falls (now Chicopee Falls) in 1678 by Japhet Chapin, John Hitchcock and Nathaniel Foote.
The foundry was the first industrialized site in Chicopee Falls.
Child laborer in Chicopee, 1911.
In 1823, Jonathan Dwight purchased the water privilege at Skenungonuck Falls in Chicopee.
By 1831, there were two enormous dams, two waterpower canals and two manufacturing communities on the Chicopee River.
In 1848, Chicopee - which, for over two centuries had been a part of Springfield - was partitioned off into its own town.
Political factions in Springfield wanted Springfield to remain a town, clean water turn into a town/city and take on a mayoral form of government.
By partitioning off Chicopee, those political factions inhibited Springfield from becoming a town/city for four years - Springfield was chartered as a town/city in 1852; however, Springfield lost 2/5 of its territory area and nearly half of its populace when Chicopee was created.
Before and after the partition, eight Chicopee River companies attained product recognition around the globe: Ames, Belcher, Lamb, Dwight, Stevens, Spalding, Fisk, and Duryea.
Chicopee was home to many types of industries which include cotton mills, woolen mills, textiles, brass foundries and iron foundries, paper making, leather products like boots and shoes, the first lucifer matches, and ship building for the close-by South Hadley Canal, firearms business Crescent-Davis, which specialized in double barrel shotguns.
Chicopee was home to manufacturing of the first gasoline-powered automobile made in the United States, the Duryea. During the late Nineteenth Century, Chicopee Falls became a primary manufacturing center of bicycles. The town was the site of at least two bicycle factories: The Overman Wheel Company (1882 to about 1899), and the Spalding sporting goods company. Overman moved his bicycle manufacturing from Hartford to Chicopee Falls in 1883. The Overman business benefited the surging popularity of the safety bicycle amid the bicycle boom of the 1890s.
Chicopee was the first town/city west of Boston to form a publicly funded enhance library.
The Chicopee Public Library was formed by a donation to the town/city by the Cabotville Institute.
Main Branch of the Chicopee Public Library In 1641, Willian Pynchon period his 1636 holdings by buying the territory from the Chicopee River north to the Willimansett (Nipmuc for "good berries place" or "place of red earth") Brook.
Land revenue in Chicopee were recorded in 1659, but apparently no homes were assembled immediately.
Henry Chapin is believed to have constructed his at Exchange and West streets (lower Chicopee) in 1664, and Japhet Chapin north of what is now known as James Ferry Road (upper Chicopee) in 1673.
It is apparent from Mc - Kinstry's book that the Chapin family dominated the region north of the Chicopee River for the settlement's first 70 years.
Chicopee Street was part of the First Parish in Springfield.
In total, Chicopee became four distinct commercial and political sub-divisions, each with its own ethnic makeup representing its own special interests and, much too incessantly, in conflict with each other.
Located between Fairview and Willimansett, the Smith Highlands section once had its own school (first and second grades), Holyoke Street Railway bus service from Ingham Street athwart Irene, Factory, and Prospect streets, and two locally owned markets.
The former Robert's Pond swimming region was a prominent summer attraction, and the fields where the current Bellamy Junior High School is positioned were a prominent sledding and skiing locale winters.
Fairview is the northern-most neighborhood (village) in Chicopee and originally encompassed the lands that are now part of Westover ARB.
Memorial Drive (Route 33) flows North-South connecting Chicopee Falls with South Hadley.
French-Canadian factory workers from Chicopee Falls, Cabotville (Chicopee Center), and Holyoke began to build up the community.
Seal of the former Town of Chicopee, before to its incorporation as a town/city in 1890.
The villages of Cabotville, Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, and Fairview (and the lands that would turn into Aldenville) remained a part of Springfield, Massachusetts from 1636 until 1848, when they were partitioned to form the Town of Chicopee.
To keep Springfield sufficiently unpopulated to subvert a state regulation that would have required it to turn into a city, they partitioned Chicopee, which contained approximately 2/5 of Springfield's territory area, and nearly half of its population.
Regardless of the partition, Springfield became a town/city only four years after the partition of Chicopee.
George Sylvester Taylor (1822 1910) became Chicopee's first mayor on January 5, 1891.
Approaching the I-90 Chicopee exit Chicopee is positioned at 42 10 13 N 72 35 19 W (42.170159, -72.588630). The town/city is made up of a several neighborhoods; the result of the city's origin as a compilation of four villages in the northernmost part of Springfield, which seceded from it in 1848.
Chicopee Falls, Chicopee Center (Cabotville), Fairview, and Willimansett continued to develop.
Chicopee is positioned 29 miles (47 km) away from Hartford, 89 miles (143 km) away from Boston, 90 miles (140 km) from Albany and 140 miles (230 km) from New York City.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 23.9 square miles (62 km2), of which 22.9 square miles (59 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2) (4.31%) is water.
The Chicopee River flows through the south part of the city, emptying into the Connecticut River.
Many ponds, lakes, and streams are part of the Chicopee River or Connecticut River watersheds.
The Sword Game is an annual football game that began in 1964 after the beginning of Chicopee's second high school, Chicopee Comprehensive High School.
It is held every fall between Chicopee High School and Chicopee Comprehensive High School.
A Chicopee War Memorial.
Chicopee Memorial State Park - is positioned in the Burnett Road neighborhood and used to be known as the Cooley Brook Reservoir and Watershed, the Chicopee Memorial State Park has been advanced into a high use active recreation area.
The Cabotville Historic Sycamore Trees - are trees that were present when Chicopee became a town in 1848, matured when it became a town/city in 1890.
The Chicopee Canal Walk - dedicated on May 21, 2010, is a 1,100-foot (340 m) pedestrian walkway and mini park that follows the canal from the Cabotville Historic Sycamore Trees to Grape Street.
Plans are to extend the path to the Deady Bridge, creating a bicycle and pedestrian route connecting Cabotville and Chicopee Falls.
Chicopee City Hall The Chicopee City Hall - was assembled in 1871 in the Romanesque style.
The Chicopee War Memorial - is positioned off of the intersection of Bonneville Avenue and Front Street.
The Edward Bellamy House - is a National Historic Landmark at 91-93 Church Street in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts.
The Emerson Gaylord Mansion - is a historic mansion is positioned at the north edge of the Elms College ground on the corner of Springfield and Fairview Streets (199 Springfield Street).
The Facemate Tower - is a historic fortress on the Chicopee River in Chicopee Falls.
The Uniroyal Office Building - is a historic building in Chicopee Falls that was part of the Uniroyal Industrial Complex.
It stretches from Nash Field, following the Connecticut River south to I-90 bridge adjoining to the Chicopee boat ramp.
Originally an Army Air Corps and later Army Air Forces installation known as Westover Field, it became Westover Air Force Base when the Air Force became an autonomous service in 1947.
Transferred to the Air Force Reserve in 1974, it was retitled Westover Air Reserve Base and is now the home of the 439th Airlift Wing, flying the C-5 Galaxy airplane . Westover has one of the biggest runways on the east coast at 11,597 x 301 feet (92 m) and is the biggest Air Force Reserve base in the United States. A joint civil-military facility, it is also home to Westover Metropolitan Airport. Two military-minded youth programs, the Young Marines and the Westover Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol are also positioned at Westover.
Chicopee is mostly a service economy with a mixture of small, small-town businesses and nationwide chains.
Reflecting the city's history, many company are Polish-American and include the Chicopee Provision Company, a primary producer of Polish sausage kielbasa under the Blue Seal brand, and Millie's Pierogi, a producer of traditional Polish dumplings called pierogi.
Chicopee is the home base of Buxton Co., LLC, which "designs, manufactures, and markets personal leather goods, travel kits, ts collections for men and women." Chicopee is also home to Alden Credit Union, The Polish National Credit Union and Chicopee Savings Bank.
Chicopee Savings Bank is run by Chicopee Bancorp, which operates trades as CBNK on the NASDAQ exchange. The Chicopee River Business Park and Westover Business Park are inside the city's boundaries.
Chicopee is the second biggest municipality in Western Massachusetts, after Springfield (defining Western Massachusetts as Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties).
In 1899, it moved to Chicopee as St.
The City of Chicopee operates fifteen enhance schools inside the Chicopee School District, serving 7800 students.
There are nine elementary schools, two middle schools, one early childhood center, and three high schools (Chicopee High School, Chicopee Comprehensive High School and Chicopee Academy).
Chicopee Comprehensive High School Chicopee High School Chicopee Academy Chicopee has a multitude of Catholic schools that are directed under the Diocese of Springfield.
These schools include: Saint Joan of Arc School which serves Saint Rose de Lima Church on Grattan Street; and Saint Stanislaus School which serves the St.
These include Assumption School which served the former Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary church, Saint Patrick's School which served the former Saint Patrick's church (closure of this church is presently in dispute), Holy Name School which served Holy Name of Jesus church, Mount Carmel School which served the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary church, and Saint George School which served Saint George's church that consolidated with Saint Rose de Lima / Saint Joan of Arc School.
Holyoke Catholic High School was established in 1963 at the ground of the former Saint Jerome High School in Holyoke.
Victoria Principal, attended Chicopee Comprehensive High School through her junior year, 1968 Chicopee Falls Dam Chicopee.
Mayor Richard Kos of Chicopee did nothing to dispel the mood when he proclaimed, "There is an excitement in the air." City of Chicopee.
Chicopee Illustrated 1896, Transcript Publishing Company, Holyoke, MA "1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
Economic History of a Factory Town: A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts (1935) "Vera Shlakman, Economic History of a Factory Town, A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts (1935)", International Labor & Working-Class History Spring 2006, Issue 69, pp 195 200 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chicopee, Massachusetts.
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