Holyoke (Massachusetts)
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| Foundation : | 1850 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Massachusetts | ||
| County : | Hampden County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 12 ′ N , 72 ° 37 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 40,684 (as of 2015) | ||
| Population density : | 738.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 59.1 km 2 (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of which 55.1 km 2 (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 61 m | ||
| FIPS : | 25-30840 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 617679 | ||
| Website : | www.holyoke.org | ||
| Mayor : | Alex B. Morse | ||
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County , Massachusetts , United States . It is located on the 655 km long Connecticut River .
In 2015 the city had 40,684 inhabitants.
history
In the 19th century the city was home to the immigration colony of "Germania Mills" (en) and two gymnastics clubs "South Holyoke" and "Springdale". At that time, the neighborhood of the town of South Holyoke had the largest number of Germans per inhabitant in New England, with about half being from Saxony; In later generations this German population was Americanized and integrated.
From the middle of the 19th century, Holyoke was expanded as an industrial city as planned. The relatively strong current of the Connecticut River was used to make hydropower usable by means of a canal system. This enabled a textile and paper industry to emerge, including the Parsons Paper Mill.
Personalities
Born in Holyoke
- Justin Perkins (1805–1869), Presbyterian missionary and linguist
- William Fairfield Whiting (1864-1936), politician
- George Pierce "Gerry" Geran (1895–1981), ice hockey player
- Morris Swadesh (1909-1967), linguist
- Timothy Joseph Harrington (1918–1997), Roman Catholic clergyman
- Chuck Andrus (1928-1997), jazz bassist
- Hal Blaine (1929–2019, actually Chaim Zalmon Belsky ), musician
- Donald Rathbun Dwight (born 1931), politician
- Norman Edward D'Amours (born 1937), politician
- William Wegman (* 1943), photographer who works with Weimaraners (dogs) and photographs them as models
- Anthony John "Toby" Moffett (* 1944), politician
- Mitch Epstein (* 1952), photographer, film director and production designer
- Robert William "Bob" Goodlatte (* 1952), politician
- Melanie Kinnaman (* 1953), dancer, film and theater actress
- Michael Gary Nozik (* 1954), film producer
- Ann Dowd (born 1956), actress
- Dean Lombardi (* 1958), ice hockey official
- Paul William Azinger (* 1960), professional golfer of the PGA TOUR
- Arthur "Art" Adams (* 1963), comic artist
- Billy L. Mitchell (* 1965) was best known for setting records in arcade games
- Joseph Allen "Joe" Farnsworth (* 1968), jazz drummer and hardbop band leader
- Adam Pineault (* 1986), ice hockey player
Died in Holyoke
- William Whiting (1841-1911), politician, between 1883 and 1889 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives
- Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962), German-American poet, writer and publicist
- Patrick Goold (1922–2001), British classical philologist with a focus on Latin studies
See also
- Mary Lyon (1797–1849), American educator and suffragette, founder and first president of Mount Holyoke College Women's University
- Westfield – Holyoke Railway
- Land of Providence ( German Land of Providence ), a 25 acres (10.1 hectares ) large nature reserve near Holyoke
- Dinosaur Footprints ( German dinosaur footprints ), an 8 acres (3.2 ha ) nature reserve , is located near Holyoke
- Good Housekeeping magazine was founded on May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke.
Individual evidence
- ↑ An act to incorporate the town of Holyoke , Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1850. (in English)
- ↑ https://www.holyoke.org/elected-officials/
- ↑ Gerwart Wiesinger: The German immigrant colony of Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1865-1920 . F. Steiner, Stuttgart 1994, OCLC 31941276 .
- ^ Robert Paul McCaffery: Islands of Deutschtum: German-Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1870-1942 . P. Lang, New York 1996, OCLC 246910510 , pp. 72 (English).
