Train Wreck, Holyoke, Massachusetts - Lost New England

Train Wreck, Holyoke, Massachusetts - Lost New England

A train wreck at Jones Point in Holyoke, Massachusetts, probably on July 24, 1869. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892). The scene in 2025: These two photos show a site on the west bank of the Connecticut River that is known as Jones Point. It is just north of the modern-day Jones Point Park, and historically this was the far northern edge of Holyoke, before the city annexed Mount Tom and the Smith’s Ferry neighborhood in 1909. As shown in thes…