situated on Hopedale Street opposite Union Street. We dealt primarily in hay, wood and ice then. In 1901 Hopedale Stable moved to its present location on Hope Street, and in July 1907, the company was incorporated under its present name of Hopedale Coal and Ice Company. Milford Daily News, March 30, 1965. |
Hopedale Coal & Ice Company
evolved into Hopedale Coal & Ice. Ice was cut on Hopedale Pond and stored in a big ice house on the west side of Hopedale Pond, where the Gannett home is now. It was probably in the early 1940s when they stopped getting ice from the pond and started making it. I remember ice being delivered to a few homes in my neighborhood on Oak Street in the 1950s. I don't know when that stopped, but I doubt is was still going on by the late fifties. The buildings that housed Coal & Ice were originally some of the Hopedale Stable buildings. The picture with three cars showing was taken in 2002. The big building in that photo (and in the two above it) was first a Hopedale Stable barn and later was where the ice was made. After it was no longer used for that, it was operated as Hopedale Hardware for many years in the mid-twentieth century. It was razed a few years ago - 2005 or 2006. The picture at the bottom was taken in May 2007. Thanks to Russ Dennett for assistance with this page. |
