The Birth of a City

Pilgrims

The Church

The Patch

The Plan

The Town Seal

The Surveyors

Canal Digger

Canal Workers

The Dam

The Churches

Train Station

The Blocks

Intersection

Row Housing

Realty Building

A representation of Holyoke's earliest settlers.

This is a picture of the first church in Holyoke.

The first houses built in the town looked like this.

From these plans a thriving industrial City was built.

The surveyors and engineers work on the plans.

This is a picture of a worker hand digging a canal.

You can see the horse and wagons used to move the earth.

These are some of the construction workers building the dam.

Holyoke has always been a melting pot of religious and ethnic diversity.

Holyoke's train station was busy shipping paper all over the country and to seaports where it was shipped around the world.

This is a picture of some of the old block housing were many of the Paper Mill workers lived.

This is the intersection of Main and Dwight Streets. You can see City Hall on the left up the hill.

These are the old Row Houses which were designed to house the many immigrants who came to Holyoke to work in the mills.

This building is across from City Hall and has recently been renovated.