MassachusettsA contributing property in the Hampden Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. A designed park and surrounding city blocks in Holyoke that illustrate mid-19th-century industrial city planning, growing out of an 1848 plan that set public parks within a street grid intended for mill workers' homes, stores, churches, and civic buildings. The formally symmetrical park reflects later-19th-century landscape design ideals, while the buildings represent Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Classical, and Colonial Revival styles. The district is also significant as the site of Holyoke's first Roman Catholic parish, whose church, convents, schools, and charitable institutions served immigrant, largely Irish, populations. Its period of significance runs from 1848 to 1962.
Hampden Park - Holyoke World War II Monument
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Hampden Park - Holyoke World War II Monument is a historical marker in Holyoke, Hampden County. It is one of 129 historical markers documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 42.2080, -72.6086 near Holyoke. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hampden Square (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hampden Park Flagpole, Hampden Park - Holyoke Civil War Monument, and Perry, George H. House.
This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Holyoke World War II Monument in Hampden Park, dedicated in 1962, honors residents of the paper-mill city who served and died in the Second World War. It is a contributing feature of a National Register historic district.
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