Hopedale, 1854

    The pictures at the bottom of the map show the church, built in 1860, on the
    same site as the 1898 Unitarian Church, and a building that may have been, in
    part, anyway, the Little Red Shop. This picture is in a Cotton Chats article that
    reports that it is the Red Shop. It doesn't look much like it, unless the front part
    was eventually demolished and the ell projecting at the right is what remains.
    And what is the 1860 church doing on an 1854 map? The pictures were added
    to the map later, maybe? There are similarities, but important differences
    between the drawing of the church on the map and a photo of the church. (Click
    on the Unitarian Church link above to see the picture.) The other possibility is
    that it was of the school/chapel, but it looks even less like that.  And was the map
    drawn in 1852, 1853 or 1854? See the comment on the left side of the map for
    more on that. This map is from the 2010 edition of Adin Ballou's History of the
    Hopedale Community.

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