Excerpt from Our County and Its People: A History of Hampden County, MassachusettsThe city OF holyoke - Early History, Settlement and Devel opment - Town Organization and Civil List - Municipal History - City Civil List - The Fire Department - City Water Works The Public Parks - Educational Institutions - The Public Library - The City Hospital - Young Men's Christian Associa tion - Holyoke Street Railway Company - Banking and Finan cial Institutions - Industrial Holyoke - The Business Men's Association - Cemeteries - Ecclesiastical History - The French People of Holyoke.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.