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Museums Massachusetts Holyoke - Lenox

  Massachusetts
  Holyoke
  Children's Museum Holyoke
  444 Dwight Street
  Holyoke  MA  01040    
  Phone  413 536-7048
  Web Site  *****
  E-mail  mailto:landry@javanet.com
  Alt Web  http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/rosters/pass/history.html-Holyoke
  Description  Paperworks papermaking, Cityscape, TotLot for small kids
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Primary Focus  Children
  New or Updated:  10/31/2003

Huntington
Chester Foundation
PO Box 276
Huntington MA 01050
Phone 413 354-7752
Web Site http://www.seeourtown.com/arts/museums/ChesterFoundation/chesterfound.cfm
E-mail mailto:dproct01@emerald.tufts.edu
Description railroad memorabilia in historic station
Type of Resource Museum
Primary Focus Railroad
Building Type Depot
Collection G-M Model Railroad
Collection N-Z Rolling Stock
Era 1840

  Massachusetts
  Lawrence
  Immigrant City Archives, Historical Society of Lawrence
  6 Essex Street
  Lawrence  MA  01840    
  Phone  978 686-9230
  Web Site  http://krhlawrence.com/Archives_page1.html
  Alt Web  http://www.essexheritage.org/visiting/placestovisit/listofsitesbycommunity/immi                   grant_city.shtml
  Description  local history in old buildings around a courtyard
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Primary Focus  Building Collection
  Building Type  Commercial
  Field of Study/Science Facility  Labor
  Research /Reading  Archives
  Era      1883
  New or Updated:  11/04/2003

  Lawrence

  Lawrence Heritage State Park

  1 Jackson Street

  Lawrence  MA   01840    

  Phone   978 794-1655

  Web Site  http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/lwhp.htm

  Alt Web  http://www.essexheritage.org/lawrence_heritage.htm

  Description  restored boarding house with two floors of exhibits explains history town's mills  including 1912 Bread and Roses strike

  Type of Resource   Museum

  Primary Focus  Industrial

  Field of Study/Science Facility  Labor

  New or Updated:    12/5/2005

  Massachusetts
  Lenox
  Pleasant Valley Trailside Museum
  Pleasant Valley Nature Sanctuary
  472 W Mountain Road
  Lenox  MA  01240    
  Phone  413 637-0320
  Web Site  *****
  Alt Web  http://www.berkshireweb.com/sports/comp/audubon.html
  Description  nature museum in sanctuary
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Primary Focus  Natural History
  Nature of Group or Site  Nature Center
  Research /Reading  Library
  New or Updated:  11/05/2003