Somerset Public Library
  • Home
    • Special Events
  • About
    • Hours
    • Directions
    • Contact
    • Mission Statement
    • Value of Service
    • World War II Monuments and Memorial Walkway
    • Photos
    • Board of Library Trustees
    • Policies
  • Get a Library Card
  • Search our Catalog
    • Forthcoming Books
    • Forthcoming Movies
  • eBooks
  • Museum Passes
  • Book Clubs
    • 4th Week Book Group
  • Reference
    • Databases
    • Employment Resources
    • Government Officials
    • Health
    • Internet Use Policies
    • Links
    • MA Legal Information
    • Newspapers
    • Special topics>
      • Antiques and Collecting
      • Car Buying and Repair
      • Genealogy
      • Lizzie Borden
      • Salem Witch Trials
      • Somerset Bios
      • Titanic
      • WWII>
        • WWII Special Collections
    • Tax Resources
    • Weaver's Cove/Mill River Pipeline
  • Circulation
    • Pay your fines
    • Library Card Registration
    • Electronic Games
    • Library Elf
    • Brown Bags and Books
    • Services for Teachers and Educators
  • Children's
    • Story Times
    • Bookworms Book Club
    • Tumblebooks
    • Educational Resources
    • Book Lists
  • Teens
    • Teen Book Club
    • Book Lists
    • Reading Rebellion Blog
  • Friends of SPL
  • PACE
  • ADA
    • ADA Devices
  • rdio

Clifford M. Holland and the Holland Tunnel

Picture
Dedication of the Holland Tunnel on November 12, 1927.
(Photo by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.)
 
                 Clifford Milburn Holland
 
                     Born:  March 13, 1883 in Somerset, MA
                     Death October 27, 1924
                     Engineer:  Holland Tunnel New York
                   
 


Bibliography (you can find these articles in the Reference Department, Somerset Public Library)
 
 
Clifford Holland remembered.  The [Somerset] Spectator.  February 20, 1991. Page 29
 
Clifford M. Holland, great tunnel builder, was a Somerset boy.  The [Somerset] Spectator.  July 18, 1974.
 
Clifford Milburn Holland.  An article possibly from the Somerset Historical Society written sometime after 1975.
 
Gray, Carl C.  The Eighth Wonder.  Boston, MA: B.F. Sturtevant Co, c1927.
 
Holland Tunnel.  From Building Big: Databank: Holland Tunnel.  Accessed via http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/holland.html.  (7/29/2003)
 
Holland Tunnel Designated a National Historic Landmark.  From All Things Considered (NPR) June 29, 1994.  Accessed via http://elibrary.bigchalk.com.
 
Holland Tunnel Historic Overview.  Accessed via http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/holland.
 
Levine, Samantha. Tunnel Visionary.  U.S. News and World Report June 30, 2003. Accessed via http://elibrary.bigchalk.com.
 
Malone, Dumas, ed. Dictionary of American Biography.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. 
 
Somerset Man’s Work: Tunnel 50 Years Old.  Fall River Herald News.  November 1977.
 
 
 
Compiled by B.Mendes, Reference Librarian
September 2003, updated February 16, 2006