Holyoke, Massachusetts "Holyoke"
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Holyoke, Massachusetts Flag of Holyoke, Massachusetts Flag Official seal of Holyoke, Massachusetts Holyoke ma Holyoke, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Holyoke, Massachusetts - Holyoke, Massachusetts Website City of Holyoke, Massachusetts Holyoke is a town/city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States that lies between the bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range.
Sitting eight miles north of Springfield, Holyoke is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Area, one of the two distinct urbane areas in Massachusetts.
This settlement, on fertile farmland just north of the Connecticut River's first primary falls (at Enfield Falls), the place where seagoing vessels necessarily had to transfer their cargo into lesser shallops to continue northward on the Connecticut River, quickly became a prosperous settlement largely due to its advantageous position on the Bay Path to Boston, the Massachusetts Path to Albany, and beside the Connecticut River.
West Springfield's northernmost church (alternately called Third Parish, North Parish, or Ireland Parish) became Holyoke, titled after earlier Springfield settler William Pynchon's son-in-law, Elizur Holyoke, who had first explored the region in the 1650s. The village of Holyoke was first settled in 1745 and was officially incorporated in 1850.
Chapin as first postmaster and had its name changed to Holyoke (with George Whittle as first postmaster) March 14, 1850. The neighborhood became the northern part of Holyoke in 1909. Holyoke had several inhabitants until the assembly of a dam and the Holyoke Canal System in 1849 and the subsequent assembly of water-powered mills, especially paper mills.
The Holyoke Machine Company, manufacturer of the Hercules water turbine, was among many industrialized developments of the era. Holyoke's populace rose from just under 5,000 in 1860 to over 60,000 in 1920.
In 1888, Holyoke's paper trade spurred the foundation of the American Pad & Paper Company, which as of 2007 is one of the biggest suppliers of office products in the world.
The availability of water power enabled Holyoke to support its own electric utility business and maintain it autonomously of America's primary county-wide electric companies.
Holyoke was one of the first prepared industrial communities in the United States.
Holyoke features rectilinear street grids a novelty in New England.
The city's advantageous locale on the Connecticut River the biggest river in New England beside Hadley Falls, the river's steepest drop (60 feet), thriving the Boston Associates, who had successfully advanced Lowell, Massachusetts' textile industry. From the late 19th century until the mid-20th century, Holyoke was the world's biggest paper manufacturer. The elaborate Holyoke Canal System, assembled to power paper and textile mills, distinguishes it from other Connecticut River cities.
Holyoke is nicknamed "The Paper City" due to its fame as the world's greatest paper producer.
Smith's Ferry Highland Park Highlands Jarvis Avenue Oakdale The Flats Downtown Churchill South Holyoke Springdale Rock Valley Elmwood Homestead Avenue Whiting Farms Ingleside Holyoke is positioned at 42 12 11 N 72 37 26 W (42.203191, -72.623969). Holyoke is the locale of East Mountain, the Mount Tom Range, and Mount Tom, 1202 feet (363 m), the highest traprock peak on the Metacomet Ridge, a linear mountain range that extends from Long Island Sound to the Vermont border.
The City of Holyoke is divided into 15 distinct neighborhoods; in alphabetical order, they are: The Flats features the Holyoke Canal System and many prominent structures assembled by the Hadley Falls Company in the mid-19th century.
Ingleside features the Holyoke Mall and Nuestras Raices.
South Holyoke features the Holyoke Turner Hall.
As of the census of 2010, there were 39,878 citizens , 14,977 homeholds, and 9,478 families residing in Holyoke.
Politically, the town/city of Holyoke has recently supported candidates from the Democratic Party by a wide margin.
In the 2012 elections, voters supported President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a margin of 76%-22%, and Elizabeth Warren over incumbent Senator Scott Brown 70%-30%. Holyoke propel an openly gay mayor, Alex Morse, in the 2011 municipal election. According to the 2003 FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement Holyoke's crime rate in most categories was above the nationwide average, in some categories, decidedly .
Known by its moniker, the "Paper City", Holyoke's economic base was advanced almost entirely around the paper trade for the better part of the late 19th and early 20th century; at one time the town/city was reportedly the biggest producer of stationery, writing, and archival goods in the world. While writing paper manufacturing has largely left the city, Holyoke is still home to a number of specialty paper manufacturers, including companies like Eureka Lab Book, Hampden Paper, Hazen Paper, United Paper Box, and University Products.
Tsubaki in Springdale, and a Sonoco cardboard recycling plant in South Holyoke.
In recent years there have been prosperous accomplishments to attract high-tech jobs to Holyoke and diversify its economic base.
For example, a coalition of universities and tech companies have assembled the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, an energy-efficient, high-performance computing center, in Holyoke.
The data center has been assembled in Holyoke in part due to hydropower accessibility. The retail zone has been a primary employer since the assembly of the Holyoke Mall, one of the biggest shopping malls in New England, in 1979.
Starting in the 1950s, a large influx of Puerto Ricans and citizens from other Latino groups began to immigrate and migrate to Holyoke.
Today Latinos form the biggest minority group in the city, with the biggest percentage Puerto Rican populace of any town/city in the US outside Puerto Rico proper, at 44.7%. The entire Latino populace of Holyoke, as of the 2010 census, was 19,313, or 48.4% of the city's populace of 39,880.
The Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade typically attracts 350,000 to 450,000 citizens each year, although in certain years in the 1960s and 1970s when the March weather was "perfect", that number blossomed to what the police department estimated were 1,000,000 celebrants. The Puerto Rican improve of Holyoke holds an annual Puerto Rican Day parade on the third weekend of July as part of an Annual Hispanic Family Festival held by La Familia Hispana, inc.
Morse, who first became an activist for LGBT rights as a high school student in Holyoke only six years earlier, presided at the city's first rainbow flag-raising ceremony in recognition of Gay Pride Month in June 2012. Holyoke City Hall, Holyoke, M.A. Holyoke Heritage State Park Holyoke Mall at Ingleside Holyoke Merry-Go-Round Barrett Fishway, lift fitness to allow fish to swim upstream of the Holyoke Dam Post Office, Captain Alezue Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River, an petroleum on canvas mural, painted by Ross Moffet and installed in 1936. Morgan invented volleyball at the former Holyoke YMCA.
The Volleyball Hall of Fame resides in Holyoke at Heritage State Park and inducts a new class of athletes, coaches, and contributors every October.
Holyoke School Department serves the city.
Holyoke High School, William J.
Dean Technical-Vocational High School, and the Paulo Friere Social Justice High School are the city's high schools.
Holyoke Community College serves Holyoke and the Massachusetts area.
Holyoke Catholic High School was in Holyoke for five decades but is now in Chicopee. Holyoke Public Library, found at 335 Maple Street, is one of the very several examples of neoclassical architecture in the town/city of Holyoke.
It sits on Library Park, which was donated by the Holyoke Water Power Company in 1887.
It remained there until it was determined that it had outgrown the space and a undivided facility was required. Holyoke's people were charged to raise cash to construct the library building and furnish additional books.
We can say to the people of Holyoke you have only to ask her and you will find knowledge to make your life useful and happy." Passenger rail service returned to Holyoke in August 2015, after being absent since 1967. Amtrak's Vermonter stops at the Holyoke station once a day in each direction.
Even with its industrialized history, Holyoke has been fortunate enough to contain no Superfund sites. One of the greatest producers of pollution in the region was the former Mount Tom Station, a coal plant in Smith's Ferry.
Jack Doyle (1869 1958), Irish American baseball player who settled in Holyoke and served as police commissioner 1908-09.
Raymond Kennedy (1934 2008), novelist, who set many of his books in a fictionalized Holyoke that he called "Ireland Parish" and "Hadley Falls".
The Revised Ordinances of the City of Holyoke.
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[Holyoke] is the biggest producer of fine writing paper in the world, manufacturing enough fine paper every day to carpet two square miles.
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Holyoke, Massachusetts - Populated places established in 1745 - Cities in Massachusetts - Cities in Hampden County, Massachusetts - Populated places on the Connecticut River - Early American industrialized centers - Springfield, Massachusetts urbane region - Ukrainian communities in the United States - Hispanic and Latino American culture in Massachusetts - 1745 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
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