Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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of about one million dollars. Almost three tons of paper were made at first, but business grew so fast that a second mill was built from profits of the first years. The capital in 1887 was three million dollars, but the original invest- ment was only one million. As of 1887, Hol- yoke produced over half of the fine paper made in the United States. The second wooden dam, built in 184-9, gave excellent service until 1894 when a mod- ern masonry dam was started. This project took six years to complete and cost approxi- mately six hundred thousand dollars. Because it was the largest stone masonry dam in the United States, it was called the 'cmillion dollar dam. The structure, as it exists today, meas- ures 1,020 feet between abuttments and is thirty feet high from the river bedrock. Its granite facing insures against the constant 20 view of the Dam and Canal system 119645 erosion of the water and abrasive forces of ice and driftwood throughout the year. The downstream curve of the dam is truly para- bolic. Following the construction'of the great dam in 1900, Holyoke continued to prosper and has rightfully been called the Industrial City of Western Massachusetts. Even though Holyoke has no centuried past to recall, no crumbling landmarks to cherish, no ancestral memories to venerate, its memories dwell chiefly on the daring and foresight of the- group of men who harnessed the Connecticut River and whose engineering triumphs brought about the birth of our city. There are very few cities in the East that can show such a swift, and at the same time such a substantial growth as Holyoke has enjoyed over the past century.