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HOLYOKE , a See also:city of See also:Hampden See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., in a See also:bend of the See also:Connecticut See also:river, about 8 m. N. of See also:Springfield. Pop. (188o) 21,915; (1890) 35,637; (1900) 45,712; (1910 See also:census) 57,730. Of the See also:total See also:population in 1900, 18,921 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 6991 See also:French-Canadians, 565o Irish, 16o2 Germans and 1118 See also:English; and 33,626 were of foreign parentage (both parents foreign-born), including 12,370 of Irish and 11,oso of French-See also:Canadian parentage. The city's See also:area is about 17 sq. m. The city is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Maine, and the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford See also:railways, and by an interurban See also:line. Holyoke is characteristically an See also:industrial and See also:mercantile city; it has some handsome public buildings (the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and the public library, founded in 187o, being especially noteworthy) and attractive environs. Holyoke is the railway station for Mt Holyoke See also:College, in See also:South See also:Hadley, about 4 M. N..by E. of Holyoke; the city is connected with South Hadley by an electric line. Just above Holyoke the Connecticut leaves the rugged See also:highlands through a rift between Mt Tom (1214 ft.; ascended by a See also:mountain-railway from Holyoke) and Mt Holyoke (954 ft.), and begins a meandering valley course, falling (in the Hadley Falls) in See also:great See also:volume some 6o ft. in about 12 m. The See also:water-See also:power was unutilized until 1849, when a great See also:dam (1017 ft. See also:long) was completed, which enabled vast power to be See also:developed along a See also:series of canals laid out from the river. This was, in its See also:day, a See also:colossal under-taking; and its success transformed Holyoke from a farming See also:village into a great manufacturing centre—in 1900 and 190$ the ninth largest of the See also:commonwealth. In 1900 a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone dam (1020 ft.), said to be the second largest in New See also:England, was completed at a cost of about $750,000. See also:Cotton manufactures first, and later See also:paper products were See also:chief in importance, and Holyoke now leads all the cities in the See also:United States in the manufacture of See also:fine paper. In 1905 the total value of all factory products was $30,731,332, of which $10,620,255 (or 34.6% of the total) represented paper and See also:wood pulp; $5,p19,817, cotton goods; $1,318,409, woollen goods; $1,756,473, See also:book binding and See also:blank books, and $2,022,759, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop
products. See also:Silk and worsted goods are -other important manufactures. Opposite Holyoke, in See also:Hampshire county, is South Hadley Falls. The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:gas and electric-See also:lighting See also:plants and the water See also:works (the water-See also:supply being derived from natural ponds, some of which are outside the city limits), and owns and leases (to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad) a railway extending (10.3 m.) to See also:Westfield, See also:Mass. Holyoke was originally a See also:part of Springfield, and after 1774 of See also:West Springfield. In i85o it was incorporated as a township, and in 1873 was chartered as a city.
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