Formation 1952 | Founded at Holyoke, Massachusetts | |
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The parade is hosted every year on the Sunday of the week that has Saint Patrick's Day. Each parade usually attracts around 400,000 spectators from all over the United States of America. Spectator counts have dropped over the years, as in the '60s and early '70s the parade attracted around 1,000,000 spectators.
This is a graph on spectator counts for the parade.
Formation
In 1952 the first Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade was hosted, and the Holyoke Saint Patrick's Parade Committee was formed. The parade was started because of a vast amount of the Holyoke, Massachusetts population was Irish. Still to this day, many people in Holyoke are Irish.
References
Holyoke, MA Saint Patrick's Day Parade Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA