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    The Holyoke Dam, also referred to as the Hadley Falls Dam, or Hadley Falls Station is a granite dam built in tandem with the Holyoke Canal System at Hadley...
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    planned industrial cities in the United States. Built in tandem with the Holyoke Dam to utilize the water power of Hadley Falls, it is one of a handful of...
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  • The first Holyoke Dam is completed, made of timbers, it collapses within hours of its gates closure. 1849 – The second timber Holyoke Dam is completed...
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    slowed by main stem dams, which create a series of slow-flowing basins from Lake Francis Dam in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to the Holyoke Dam at South Hadley...
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    record is listed by the IGFA as 11 pounds 4 ounces (5.1 kg), set at Holyoke Dam, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1986 by Robert A. Thibodo. American shad exhibit...
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    the inability to reach their spawning ground following a period of heavy dam construction.[citation needed] Since then, fish passage efforts have begun...
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    into three canals based on elevation and distance from the inlet at the Holyoke Dam- the First Level Canal, Second Level Canal, and Third Level Canal. Constructed...
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    Utilities and as a result the municipal utility assumed control of the Holyoke Dam and Canal System and an electric distribution system serving industrial...
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    Hodges Village Dam – French River Holyoke Dam – Connecticut River Hunts Pond Dam (Mill Street Dam) – Beaver Brook Indian River Power Supply dam - Westfield...
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    Fish ladder (redirect from Dam fish ladder)
    elevators lift up to 500 fish at a time, 52 feet (15.85 m), to clear the Holyoke Dam. In 2013, the elevator carried over 400,000 fish. Rock-ramp fishway Uses...
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    approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge (1880s), Croton Aqueduct (NY, 1880), Holyoke Dam (Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1890s), piers for Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridge (Manhattan...
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    the Connecticut River. Approximately 900 of those live downstream of Holyoke Dam. While shortnose sturgeon primarily remain in their natal rivers, they...
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  • people, 15,361 households, and 9,329 families residing in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The population density was 723.6/km2 (1,874/mi²). There...
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    Log Pond Cove (category Geography of Holyoke, Massachusetts)
    wayside on the Connecticut River, about half a mile upstream from the Holyoke Dam at South Hadley Falls. The 18.5-acre (75,000 m2) pond was once used for...
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  • series of Canadian public service announcements Holyoke Water Works, a public drinking water utility in Holyoke, Massachusetts How Wood railway station, in...
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    comprised the largest demographic in Holyoke and built much of the early city's infrastructure, including the dams, canals, and factories. Facing early...
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    the Connecticut River. Holyoke Gas & Electric maintains Texon Park, Lower Riverside Park, and Gatehouse Park along the Holyoke dam. Lower Riverside Park...
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    During the late 19th and early 20th centuries Holyoke saw an influx of Franco-Americans (French: les Holyokais franco-américains, lit. "the French-American...
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    the firm was incorporated as the Smith Paper Company. In 1849, the Holyoke Dam was completed across the Connecticut River which started an expansion...
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    listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Holyoke Canal System Holyoke Dam List of mills in Fall River, Massachusetts List of mills in New Bedford...
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    machine shops and water-power system. 1859 Holyoke Massachusetts United States See also: Holyoke Dam, Holyoke Heritage State Park. No ASME brochure available...
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    flooding was somewhat arrested by a freeze starting on March 13. The Holyoke Dam had a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) section ripped out by an ice jam. In...
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    Work Done for the Preservation of the Dam at Holyoke, Mass., in 1885, and on Some Studies for a New Stone Dam for the Same Place". Transactions of the...
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    Works dam; interior secretary calls effort 'milestone for river conservation'". Bangor Daily News. - Holyoke, John (August 31, 2012). "Great Works dam removal...
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    George C. Ewing (category Politicians from Holyoke, Massachusetts)
    one of the chief founders of Holyoke, Massachusetts; he is credited as having first brought the idea of building a dam and industrial city at Hadley...
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    Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (category Buildings and structures in Holyoke, Massachusetts)
    in Holyoke, Massachusetts, connected to that city's municipal fiber grid and powered by Holyoke Gas and Electric via the Holyoke Canal System and Dam. MGHPCC...
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    Whiting Street Reservoir (category Geography of Holyoke, Massachusetts)
    reservoir was built by damming up Raging Brook with a sandstone dam and earthen berm. Though the third water source added to the Holyoke Water Works, the reservoir...
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    Rock Valley, sometimes referred to as West Holyoke, is a neighborhood in Holyoke, Massachusetts located to the west of the city center, approximately...
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    boats. South Hadley/Chicopee Boat Access James St. downstream from the Holyoke dam. Gravel ramp for shallow draft fishing boats. Popular during shad fishing...
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    the development of the Hercules turbine, initially manufactured by the Holyoke Machine Company and subsequently improved upon by engineers in Germany...
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