Sports, Park and Pond Menu      The Mill River   A Gordon Hopper article on the history of the river.    The pond, 1905, 1920, 1945 and 2003       Hopedale Pond and Parklands - slideshow on YouTube       Field Days    Field Day photos   Nineteen on four pages       The Gym Milford News articles from 1955       The Boston Celtics at the Draper Gym      Canoes on the pond       The pond in the early twentieth century Boat races, boathouses, and parasols.    Swans on the pond    Draper Field       Hardball Paternalism, Hardball Politics   Labor relations and Blackstone Valley baseball    Town Park - early 1900s      Milford Ford baseball team, 1933       Softball team, 1943       Errecting department softball team      Little League All-stars. 1959      Park and pond memories from the '50s    Women's Club Fair, 1951 at the town park    Soapbox derby race, Freedom Street, 1950       The Parklands       A Walk Through the Parklands, with pictures and text - Hopedale Street to the First Bridge     First Bridge to Second Fireplace     Second Fireplace to Third Fireplace     Rustic Bridge to Freedom Street      The Lookout     Saltbox Road   (It's not necessary to come back here to go through all of these pages. Each one has a link to the next.)    Fishermen's Island    Parklands, 1899 - 1905 - Reports of the Park Commissioners     Parklands Memories - Tom Lipsky       Parklands map, 1903 - With names of property owners of the area at that time.    Parklands map, 1913 - By landscape architect, Warren Henry Manning. Much more detailed than the 1903 map.    Park Department History   This is an extensive history of the Park, pond and Parklands from 1899 to the present, done by Rick Espanet.    Hopedale Pond, August 3, 2006     Hopedale Pond without water - December 2006.    Hopedale Pond, October 20, 2009     Boy Scout project at the Lookout, 1960s.     John Stanas - champion swimmer.    Hopedale's Glorified Mill Pond       Tub race    Dredging Hopedale Pond, 1949      Plowing Hopedale Pond    Ice-out   When does the ice on Hopedale Pond melt?    Hopedale Pond and Parklands, 2009 - Slideshow on YouTube.   New Golf Course Planned - 1953     Pistol, rifle and skeet shooting    Fanny Osgood - One of the most famous of the women golfers of the early twentieth century.    The Ski Hill - Read about the Hopedale Ski Hill on a website of memories of long-gone hills.    Cross country team, 2007 Winners of Division 2 Central Massachusetts and state titles.    Lekia Cowen - Milford Daily News Athlete of the Week, December 30, 2007.                                                            HOME