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In 1946, HCC was established as Holyoke Junior College with a total enrollment of 97 in three academic areas. Dr. George Frost was the founding father of this city-sponsored institution.
The chandelier hanging in the Yankee Pedlar Opera House is from the former New York Metropolitan Opera House, which was torn down in 1963.
In 1870 the Library was originally located in a room in the old Appleton Street School; in 1876 it moved to the main floor of City Hall; and in 1902 it officially opened at its current location on Maple Street.
The Holyoke Merry-Go-Round was built between 1927 and 1929. It was constructed by The Philadelphia Tobbogan Company in Germantown, Pennsylvania, for Holyoke's Mountain Park amusement park.
The Roger Smith, "a first class modern fireproof hotel" at the corner of Maple and Suffolk Sts. was built in 1913 with an estimated cost of $400,000.
About 15,000 years ago, the current site of the City of Holyoke lay on the bottom of a portion of a 157 mile long body of water known as Lake Hitchcock.
The corner of Hampden and Northampton Streets was home to the Congregational Cemetery - it was closed in 1884 with its "guests" re-interred at Forestdale Cemetery.
Smiths Ferry used to be a section of Northampton and annexed by Holyoke in 1909.
Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., son of Frederick Law Olmstead, the father of American landscape design, played an important part as advisor in the early development of Holyoke’s parks.
The top 5 Manufacturing/Businesses in Holyoke in 1913 were: 1. Paper (23); 2. Bakery/Bake Goods (18); 3. Foundry/Machine Shops (15); 4. Tobacco shops (13); and 5. Stationery Goods (9).
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