Holyoke, a city of Massachusetts, 8 m. N. of Springfield, on the Connecticut, whose rapid current supplies the water-power for the many large paper-mills, cotton and woollen factories.
Population (circa 1900) given as 45,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Holyoake, George Jacob * Holyrood