Holyoke

Holyoke, a city of Massachusetts, 8 miles N. of Springfield, on the Connecticut River, which is here crossed by a dam over 1000 feet long and falls 60 feet in less than a mile, supplying immense water-power. Holyoke is a great seat of the paper-making trade, and has a score of paper-mills, besides numerous cotton-factories and woolen-mills, several grist-mills, and manufactures of metal and wooden wares. It contains a fine city-hall of granite, and a large number of excellent schools. Pop. (1870) 10,733; (1890) 35,637.