Short Stories and Pictures


   Thirty very
short Hopedale stories  

  
WMRC stories - Hopedale history stories broadcast on WMRC

  
Milford, 1780  

  
Local News, 1887  

  
Hopedale center, c.  1890  

  
Auto Parade - 1904  

  
First TV in Hopedale   

  
The Hope Street Bridge   

  
Mill River grist mill - map and foundation photo 

  
1935  

  
"Our Gang" parades of 1936 and 1937  

  
Patrick's/Rico's Food Center/Drugstore   

   The
gas station on Dutcher Street    

  
Bands  

  
Minstrel Show  

  
Occupation, women, 1939         Men       

  
The icehouse   

  
Best town? Low taxes, no lawyers, Boston Post Hopedale cartoon,1925

  
The Highway Department    

 
Hopedale center, c. 1890   Four pictures

  
Hopedale center with firestation  

  
Hopedale Street Fire Station  

  
Dutcher Street Fire Station, c. 1925   

  
South Hopedale school and cemetery  

  
Hopedale Village Cemetery on Memorial Day

  
"Our Gang Parade" - 1936  

  
Kindergarten 1942     

  
Dance card - Junior Prom, Class of 1945  

  
Oak Street/Jones Road kids - late 1940s.

  
Christmas party - Little Red Schoolhouse - c. 1948.

  
Paper drive - Class of '55  

   Flood of 1955 -
at Drapers     -     at Spindleville

  
Lilliputian weddings, 1940s  

  
Hopedale Community Historical Society

   Auto accidents -
Page 1     Page 2  

 
The Missing Bust   (No, not the missing statue of the general)

  
Geocaching and letterboxing  

  
Jennifer Jarvis Essay - Dedication of National Historic District       

  
The Old Recycling Center  

  
Elect Hoover Committee    

  
Hopedale Suffrage Club  

  
The Blacksmith  

  
Town Hall Grafitti  

  
Town Hall Stained Glass Windows  

  
My Kind of Town - TV show featuring Hopedale

  
She Still Stands Tall - A poem about the Draper plant by Dick Orff  

  
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speeches - Community, schools and church program, 2007

  
Questions about Hopedale history  

  
Draper loom still in use, Lancaster, Pennsylvania  
                                                                               
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