Mellen Street bridge over the Charles River. Here's a Milford News article about the possibility of rebuilding it. As I recall, the last time this was proposed, some years ago, Milford was in favor of it. Hopedale selectmen, however, opposed it because Mellen Street residents didn't want the large increase in traffic that would result, when commuters to and from 495 would use it to avoid the long wait at the lights at the Hartford Avenue/140 intersection. |
Phillips Brothers' Field |
Google Earth view showing the Osgood estate, (a bit to the left of center) better known later as the Harel House. |
Hopedale in February 2017 and a few items from Februaries of the past. Ezine for February 1 - 1917, Part 3 Ezine for February 15 - 1917, Part 4 Hopedale in January HOME . |
Click here for more on the Union Evangelical Church. |
Thanks to Gail (Burton) Earle for scrapbooks of news clippings that had been collected by her mother-in-law. They included these stories from the gasoline crisis of 1973-74, and the Draper foundry article below. |
Dutcher Street with a little snow that fell on January 31. |
In 1973, Rockwell spent $900,000 on the foundry. At the end of 1975, they closed it. Click here for more on the West Foundry. |
Dutcher Street |
Click here to see some Hopedale Highway Department vehicles from years ago. |
February 5 - Archer Rubber, one of Milford's oldest businesses is being razed. |
This might be of interest to some. I erased last names in case descendants of some of the folks listed don't want it known that they'd had an ancestor at the Worcester Lunatic Asylum or was otherwise named here. There was no concern about that in 1903. Of course everyone in town would have known about all this even if it hadn't been in the town report. I left Heman Hersey's name here since there's a whole page about his bout with smallpox on this site anyway. He was probably the last person in Hopedale to have it. |
Route 495 in Milford - February 8. It won't look like this tomorrow with more than a foot of snow predicted. |
Above - Gov. Eben S. Draper's home. Right - Gen. William F. Draper's home. By 1918, both homes would have been unoccupied, unless by caretakers. The only one living of the original owners was the general's widow, Susan. She had been residing in Rome since her daughter's marriage to Prince Boncompagni in 1916. Lt. Eben Draper was serving in the Army in France.
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February 9. Snow in front yard measured 9.5 inches. Other places, especially closer to the coast got more snow and a lot more wind than we did here. |
Traffic jam caused by delayed school opening - February 10. |
February 11. |
February 12 - 14. |
Inman Street, February 12 |
Snow blowing off the shop roof - February 13. |
Looks like Dollar Tree on 140 had another one of those "door buster sales" recently. |
February 18- That's all that's left of Archer Rubber. |
Piette, that I had been working on since Christmas. It's a map that includes parts of Hopedale, Milford, Mendon and Upton. They can be ordered with any location at the center, and cover an area of four by six miles. In this one, the site of our home on Inman Street is in the house- shaped piece at the center. Here's a bit about it from the website where Maureen ordered it. A real-life map puzzle with your home as the center piece! A love of puzzles and pride in the home are combined in this stunning jigsaw which will challenge jigsaw enthusiasts from the whole family as they race to recognize local landmarks and features and finally create a picture of the neighborhood. The perfect gift to commemorate a college, sports field or family home, you can select any address to form the center of this puzzle. |
I recently added an interview with Lyn Lovell of Milford to the site. It's about her childhood growing up on a farm in Vermont - one-room school, no paved roads, no electricity other than some battery- operated lights, etc. Click here to go to it. |
For many years the vote on allowing alcohol sales in Hopedale was similar to the one shown above for 1935. Click here to see when Hopedale voters decided to "go wet." |
February 23 |
Gamblers, this one is for you. It shows construction of the casino in Everett. It was taken by my son, DJ, on February 23. |
February 13 |
February 24 |
The ice at the lower end of Hopedale Pond (and the rest except for very small amounts in a couple of coves) was gone on February 26. Click here to see when it was gone in other years. |