Above - The Llittle Red Schoolhouse behind 120 Dutcher Street. Below - Herb Durgin standing by the schoolhouse in 1985. |
house (below the windmill) was brought across the pond and set up behind the Durgin home at 20 Dutcher Street where it became The Little Red Schoolhouse. Here's the story from a paper written for the Hopedale Community Historical Society. In the early 1940s, after the razing of the icehouse, the pump house was moved across the pond to Dutcher Street. It was then that it became known as "The Little Red Schoolhouse." Old Bill Taylor of Milford moved it with a team of horses. It took approximately five hours to reach its present location. Ethel Durgin set up a nursery school in the old pump house, and taught there. A fire bell was donated by the fire department when the school opened. The bell came from a 1914 Hopedale ladder truck.
Hopedale kids in the 1950s, and some from other area towns. |
Before there was a Grafton & Upton Railroad, there was a narrow-guage Grafton Center Railroad. This picture shows that railroad's locomotive. |
Here are some of the words that first appeared in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in 1920. |
A couple of Hopedale items for sale on eBay. |
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Hopedale residents ask Town Meeting to decide fate of land deal Click here for the article and more on the railroad and the Parklands. Click here to see photos of the Town Meeting |
Progress Street |
Jerry was in front of me while I was driving through Milford, and yes, I was stopped at a light when I took the picture. |
Draper plant at the Freedom-Hopedale intersection before the 1934 changes described below. |
We usually get a few views of herons when we're paddling on rivers. This one was fishing on the Charles near the Millis-Medfield line. |
The use of Draper looms in recent years has been to produce "selvage denim." Click here for the article the items above come from. |
Hopedale Pond on October 8. Click here to see more. |
Water going over a beaver dam near the Rustic Bridge. |
A storm during the evening of October 7 blew down trees and knocked out electricity in the area. The picture on the left shows where a flowering crab on Dutcher Street had been blown down. The trees along there had been planted in the early 1980s by the Hopedale Beautification Society, with assistance from Scouts of Troop 1, who are shown in the picture on the right. Click here to see more pictures of the boys, a Milford News article about the project, and a plaque with the names of donors.
Street. The tree that was blown down was the one the boys in the picture were planting. |
Click for more demolition photos. |
Hopedale Pond, Freedom Street |
The last rose of summer, looking rather neglected, as it blooms between the weeds in my front yard. |
Click here for info on the scarecrow fest. |
A walk through the Parklands - October 17. |
Here's a little item that was on ebay during the middle of October. The starting price was $19.99. It says Hopedale Com't on it. Okay, I think, might be a good little thing for my kitchen windowsill, so I put in a bid. It was the top bid for days, but I knew that meant nothing until the last second, since there was another bidder. I was watching it during the last couple of minutes. It went for $96.09. Mmmm, a little more than I was thinking of paying. |
And that would be Dickie Daige, of course. |
House lawn, October 24. Almost certainly the largest turnout ever for a Town Meeting in Hopedale. On the matter of buying land adjacent to the Parklands, there was a near unanimous vote in favor. Click here for more pictures of the meeting. |
Click to see more of the scarecrow fest.. |
Shop comes down - dust goes up. Click here to see more Draper demolitions photos. |
A little fall color from my front yard - October 28. |
October 30 |
Trick, or treat? |