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    Hopedale center, c.  1890       More      Auto Parade - 1904    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    Occupation, women, 1939         Men          The icehouse      Best town? Low taxes, no lawyers, Boston Post Hopedale cartoon,1925    The Highway Department       Hopedale center with firestation    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.    Christmas party - Little Red Schoolhouse - c. 1948.    Women's Club Fair - 1951    Paper drive - Class of '55     Flood of 1955 - at Drapers     -     at Spindleville      Lilliputian weddings, 1940s     Hopedale Community Historical Society       Auto accidents - Page 1     Page 2    Blueberry pie eating contest, Town Park, 1970   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                                                                        HOME     food dryer