Holyoke Massachusetts is among the early planned industrial cities in the United States.
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26 Facts About Holyoke Massachusetts
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Holyoke Massachusetts had few inhabitants until the construction of the dam and the Holyoke Massachusetts Canal System in 1849 and the subsequent construction of water-powered mills, particularly paper mills, the first and last to operate in the city, being those of the Parsons Paper Company.
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Holyoke Massachusetts was previously the location of the headquarters of the American Writing Paper Company, a trust company established in 1899 with the merging of 23 rag paper mills, 13 of which were located in Holyoke Massachusetts.
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In sum they would design 16 factories and mills in Holyoke Massachusetts and, including minor design roles, performed engineering work in some capacity on 25 of the city's in total.
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Not unlike the Bracero program, in the following decades the agency recruited Puerto Rican laborers to work on agricultural land in the continental United States; in the case of Holyoke Massachusetts, many worked on valley tobacco farms, and arrived in the city in search of better job opportunities at the mills as previous generations had.
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Holyoke Massachusetts is home to houses of worship for numerous denominations of Christianity and Judaism.
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Today the City of Holyoke has one of three foreign-trade zones in the Commonwealth, the other two being the Port of New Bedford and the Massachusetts Port Authority of Boston.
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ISO New England, one of the United States' eight electricity regional transmission organizations, is based in Holyoke Massachusetts, utilizing the city's central location for easy access to metropolitan areas in New England and New York.
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Holyoke Massachusetts has a prominent example of ecosystem garden permaculture—the Holyoke Massachusetts Edible Food Forest Garden, established in 2004 by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates.
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Bard Microcollege Holyoke Massachusetts operates in partnership with local nonprofit The Care Center, which provides educational and career opportunities to pregnant and parenting teens.
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Holyoke Massachusetts's citizens were charged to raise money to construct the library building and provide additional books.
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We can say to the citizens of Holyoke Massachusetts you have only to ask her and you will find knowledge to make your life useful and happy.
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In literature, Holyoke Massachusetts was the hometown of John Clellon Holmes, whose novel Go is considered to be the first published novel depicting the Beat Generation, predating works of his contemporaries Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
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Several acclaimed photographers originate from Holyoke Massachusetts, including Ray D'Addario, chief photographer of the Nuremberg trials, William Wegman, known nationally for his compositions of costumed weimaraners, and Mitch Epstein, whose photo essay Family Business received the United Kingdom's Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award in 2004.
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Today Holyoke Massachusetts's venues include Gateway City Arts, a converted paper factory now serving as a regular music venue, as well as the site of the former Mountain Park, now used for some large outdoor concerts, and the Holyoke Massachusetts Turner Hall, which features smaller shows.
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Holyoke Massachusetts is home to the second-largest St Patrick's Day parade in the United States, surpassed only by the New York City parade.
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Since 2016, every September the neighborhood association of South Holyoke Massachusetts has hosted El Sabor de South Holyoke Massachusetts a festival featuring local Puerto Rican cuisine, live music, and other events, including honoring local organizations for their contributions to the community.
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Holyoke Massachusetts has been home to a handful of minor league and collegiate baseball teams, among the first was the Holyoke Massachusetts Paperweights of the Connecticut League from 1903 to 1911.
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Holyoke Massachusetts has two private golf courses in Smith's Ferry, on opposite sides of Mount Tom, the 9-hole Holyoke Massachusetts Country Club and the 18-hole Wyckoff Country Club, the latter of which was originally designed by noted golf course architect Donald Ross.
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Holyoke Massachusetts is home to a wide array of municipal, state, and private land trust parks, including several designed by the Olmsted Brothers.
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Holyoke Massachusetts elected an openly gay mayor, Alex Morse, in the 2011 municipal election.
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Since this time Holyoke Massachusetts has not had its own daily news source but has been served by the weekly Holyoke Massachusetts Sun, managed by Turley Publications, which began publication in 1995.
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The Holyoke Massachusetts Merry-Go-Round was the setting of a music video sequence in the 2007 British documentary Young@Heart, chronicling a New England chorus of elders from Northampton who cover classic and contemporary rock songs.
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Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is one of two state-operated veterans healthcare facilities in the Commonwealth, offering longterm residential care as well as outpatient services to Massachusetts veterans.
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Immediately south of Holyoke is the Massachusetts Turnpike, accessible from exit 14 on I-91 South:.
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Holyoke Massachusetts has in the past established sister city relationships with cities abroad, including:.
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