Across the bridge from Chicopee Manufacturing

Title

Across the bridge from Chicopee Manufacturing

Subject

Chicopee Manufacturing; Main Street; Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; Urban Renewal; Community development corporations;

Description

Looking across the Falls Bridge at the Chicopee Manufacturing building. The Lamb Knitting Company and Savage Arms also used the building before it became DHJ Facemate Corp. On August 7th, 1980 lightning caused a fire that destroyed the building and closed the businesses there.

Creator

Chicopee Redevelopment Authority

Source

Chicopee Historical Society; Edward Bellamy Association

Publisher

Chicopee Archives Online

Date

1966

Format

Photograph

Extent

One of fifty-one scanned images selected from an unknown number of photographs.

Identifier

CPL-PHCOL-ChicopeeFalls-028

Files

CPL-PHCOL-ChicopeeFalls-028-01.jpg

Citation

Chicopee Redevelopment Authority , “Across the bridge from Chicopee Manufacturing,” Chicopee Archives Online, accessed November 22, 2024, https://chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/items/show/9297.