Holyoke

Holyoke
/hohl"yohk, hoh"lee ohk'/, n.
a city in S Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River. 44,678.

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      city, Hampden county, west-central Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the Connecticut River just north of Chicopee and Springfield. Settled in 1725 as part of Springfield, it was included in West Springfield in 1774 until incorporated as a separate township in 1850. It was named either for an early settler, Elizur Holyoke, or for the Reverend Edward Holyoke, president (1737–69) of Harvard University. It began to develop industrially after 1848, when the first of several dams was completed across the river. A system of canals was built during the latter half of the 19th century, attracting paper and textile mills.

      The city's economy has become diversified and includes services (notably health care and higher education), publishing, and the manufacture of electrical equipment, lights and lasers, and paper. Nevertheless, about one-fourth of the residents live below the poverty level. The city was the birthplace of volleyball, invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical education director of the local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Holyoke Community College was founded in 1946. Mount Holyoke College (1837) is in the town of South Hadley (in Hampshire county), to the northeast. Recreational areas include the Mount Tom Ski Area and the adjacent Mount Tom State Reservation. Westover Air Force Base is nearby. Inc. city, 1873. Pop. (1990) 43,704; (2000) 39,838.

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