Holyoke
a city in Hampden co., Mass., on the Connecticut river, and on the Boston and Maine, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads; 8 miles N. of Springfield. It is the leading paper manufacturing city in the world, with a daily output of over 200 tons. The Connecticut at this point is dammed with a dam 1,000 feet in length, supplying water-power, through a system of canals, to the numerous turbines by which nearly all the mills are operated. The principal manufactures include paper, cotton and woolen goods, machinery, turbines, thread, knit goods, steam engines and wire. The city is lighted by gas and electricity; has waterworks, public schools, high school, public library, electric street railroads, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 57,730; (1920) 60,203.