appears that this is the back of the house. (Note the bulkhead just beyond the swing.) If you know where it is, let me know and I'll add the information here. Email link on homepage. And that's where the matter stood until February 2011. Then I heard from Nancy Arone who told me that the house is at 28 Mendon Street. It's at the corner of Mendon and Highland streets. See the picture below that I took the day after Nancy sent the address. I had to take it from a different angle, but I think you can see that they are both of the same house. We'll probably never know who the people in the picture are. I'll check though the street listings at the Bancroft Library and see what I can come up with for names of people who have lived there. The earliest book I have at home is for 1928. It gives C. Hubert Draper, age 33, postman, as living there. I'm sure he was one of the "other Drapers." That is, one of the two Draper families not related to the Draper Corporation Drapers who lived in Hopedale years ago. Here's what I found on my first library search. There were no listings for Mendon Street in the early 1920s.. It was Main Street. Evidently it hadn't been changed after Hopedale separated from Milford in 1886. Some day I'll look through the books and find what year the change was made. In 1922, Emma Jones, 74, and Fanny (66) and Marion (27) Tarbox were there. In the 1898 directory, Lavender Tarbox was at 9 Union Street, and Roanna Jones was a boarder there. It seems that at some point Tarbox moved to 28 Main/Mendon and Emma Jones, with some family connection to Roanna, I presume, went with them. In the 1898 directory, the houses on some streets had numbers, while others didn't. Main Street houses didn't. |
