New England Oddities

Paper City Dinosaurs

Holyoke, Massachusetts, is a city best known for its rich and complex industrial history, and for being the birthplace of Volleyball. Harnessing the power of the Connecticut river through a dam and a series of historic canals, Holyoke grew from a small mill town to the booming “Paper City” as the twentieth century turned.

But who would have guessed that Holyoke’s historical significance predated the industrial revolution . . . by a couple hundred million years or so?

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