Now and Then - Hopedale Town Park

The picture above and the one below are from an album of old Hopedale

photos at the Bancroft Library. The one above, with the Dutcher Street

entrance in the foreground, looks toward Freedom Street. The one below

shows the entrance at the corner of Dutcher and Freedom streets.

The two pictures above were taken by Edwin Darling. You can see his house in the picture at

the top of the page. He lived in the second one from the left. (54 Freedom Street) Nearly all of

his pictures of the park were taken from inside or from the back of the house.

see more of Darling's pictures of the park.

The photo

above shows the platform that served

as a bandstand for the first few years. It was replaced

in 1906 with the one shown below.

This picture shows the start of the boys' 220 yard

race in the 1929 field day.

for more.