Short Stories and Pictures Thirty very short Hopedale stories - Five per page, six pages WMRC stories - Hopedale history stories broadcast on WMRC Milford, 1780    Thwing mill site   Local News, 1887    Old posters    Hopedale center, c.  1890       More    From top of Unitarian Church steeple, 2010     Auto Parade - 1904    Ice storm - 1921    First TV in Hopedale   The Hope Street Bridge   1935    "Our Gang" parades of 1936 and 1937    Patrick's/Rico's Food Center/Drugstore   The gas station on Dutcher Street    Bands    Minstrel Show    High School Washington trip, 1936, '37 and '38    Occupation, women, 1939         Men       The icehouse   Best town? Low taxes, no lawyers, Boston Post Hopedale cartoon,1925 The Highway Department    Hopedale center with fire station    Hopedale Street Fire Station    Dutcher Street Fire Station, c. 1925   South Hopedale school and cemetery    Hopedale Village Cemetery on Memorial Day    Kindergarten 1942     Dance card - Junior Prom, Class of 1945    Oak Street/Jones Road kids - late 1940s.   Lilliputian weddings, 1940s   Christmas party - Little Red Schoolhouse - c. 1948.    Women's Club Fair - 1951    Flood of 1955 - at Drapers     -     at Spindleville   Paper drive - Class of '55    Hopedale Community Historical Society   - founded in 1957 A dirty map    Auto accidents - Page 1     Page 2    Blueberry pie eating contest, Town Park, 1970    Garages (The old Draper garages) Tree belt planting  1980s    The Missing Bust   (No, not the missing statue of the general) Geocaching and letterboxing    Jennifer Jarvis Essay - Dedication of National Historic District       The Old Recycling Center    Elect Hoover Committee    Hopedale Suffrage Club    The Blacksmith    Town Hall Grafitti    Town Hall Stained Glass Windows    My Kind of Town - TV show featuring Hopedale She Still Stands Tall - A poem about the Draper plant by Dick Orff Union Church peace garden - More by Dick Orff Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speeches - Community, schools and church program, 2007 Questions about Hopedale history    Draper loom still in use, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Ellen Fettig - 100th birthday   Mystery house on Mendon Street                                                                                     HOME