Sports, Park, Parklands 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    Hopedale Field Days slide show on YouTube The Gym - Milford News articles from 1955    The Boston Celtics at the Draper Gym   The pond in the early twentieth century  - Boat races, boathouses, and parasols. Swans on the pond    Draper Field      Draper baseball, 1948    Hardball Paternalism, Hardball Politics   - Labor relations and Blackstone Valley baseball Town Park History by Gordon Hopper   Town Park - early 1900s   Draper soccer team, 1923    Draper field day, 1929    Milford Ford baseball team, 1933    Hopedale High baseball team, c. 1935    Draper Blackstone Valley League baseball team of 1935, at 1976 reunion. Tennis champs of 1938    Women's softball team, 1943    Errecting department softball team   Undefeated - the Hopedale High basketball team of 1956-57    Little League All-stars. 1959   Pre-1910 Hopedale Pond photos    Tub race    Park and pond memories from the '50s    Kids at the pond - most identified Women's Club Fair, 1951 at the town park    Park programs 1967 - fishing derby and tennis tournament Millstones at the Freedom Street park entrance - Where they came from and how they got there. Soapbox derby race, Freedom Street, 1950    Arnold Nealley - Hunter and fisherman    Nipmuc Rod & Gun Club    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.) Fisherman's Island    Parklands, 1899 - 1905 - Reports of the Park Commissioners Parklands Memories - Tom Lipsky    Parklands map, 1904 -  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. Parklands map, 2014 - Map shows Eagle Scout project distance marker locations. Park and Parklands History - Gordon Hopper article. Willard Taft plaque near Parklands entrance    Park Department History   This is an extensive history of the Park, pond and Parklands from 1899 to the present, done by Rick Espanet. Adirondacks at the Lookout    Fisherman's Island Eagle Scout project.     Carpenter Road - Not actually in the Parklands, but nearby. A nice walk in the woods off of the G&U tracks Warren Henry Manning - The landscape architect who designed the Town Park and Parklands. The Bridges of Hopedale Pond   (Freedom Street, trolley, Cutler's, Rawson's, Rustic) Hopedale Pond, August 3, 2006 Hopedale Pond without water - December 2006. And also dry on August 2010. Hopedale Pond, October 20, 2009 John Stanas - champion swimmer. The Howarth sisters - record-setting swimmers    Hopedale's Glorified Mill Pond    Dredging Hopedale Pond, 1949   Flood, 1955    Hopedale Pond, 1962 - a few names and faces The last years of swimming at Hopedale Pond.    Plowing Hopedale Pond     Ice-out   When does the ice on Hopedale Pond melt?    Hopedale Pond and Parklands, 2009 - Slideshow on YouTube.    Hopedale Pond - August 14, 2010    Hopedale Pond - September 1, 2010   Repairing the dam - 2010 Now and Then at Hopedale Pond    Now and Then at the Hopedale Country Club     Pistol, rifle and skeet shooting    Fanny Osgood - One of the best known woman golfer of the early twentieth century.    The Ski Hill - Read about the Hopedale Ski Hill on a website of memories of long-gone hills. More on the ski hill - Milford News photos for 1967 and 1968.    The J's - Senior Ruth team 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. Road race - August 21, 2010.     Road race - August 20, 2011     Road race - May 2013      Milford News article on Coach Joe Small - May 2012 Vandalism at Fisherman's Island, Spring 2012.    Hopedale High School Athletic Hall of Fame For more pictures of the Town Park, Parklands, and Hopedale Pond, go to Recent Pictures Menu (through 2007)                Recent Pictures Menu, 2008      Recent Pictures Menu, 2009     Recent Pictures Menu, 2010                     Recent Pictures Menu, 2011      Recent Pictures Menu 2012     Recent Pictures Menu 2013                                                       Recent Pictures Menu 2014        Recent Pictures Menu 2015                               Now and Then - The Town Park                    Group Pictures Menu                                                           Hopedale scenes on YouTube Menu                                 HOME .