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Minka, (sitting on car hood, holding cat) wrote her memories of growing up in White City, playing on a Draper softball team, and life in Hopedale during World War II. Click on the picture to see them.

Hopedale High yearbook from 2002, showing the cupola that’s no longer on the building. Click on the picture to see when and why it was removed. The picture is from ebay, where the yearbook is for sale.

In the nineteenth century, there were three octagon houses in Hopedale; one on Dutcher Street, one on Hopedale Street, and the one above on Prospect Street. Click on the picture to read about them.

This building stood on the corner of Hopedale and Depot streets from the 1850s to 1982. Click on the picture to see more about it.

Hopedale Airport Industrial Park
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A skim of ice, a little snow - December 5.
Birds of a feather - Spindleville Pond - December 8.

Hopedale’s most momentous celebration was Christmas, held in December to commemorate not so much Christ’s birth – which was supposed to have been in the spring – as his example. It was a conscious defiance of New England’s religious past, when Puritans had spurned Christmas as a heathen holiday. Edward K. Spann – Hopedale: Commune to Company Town

In these days of Christmas trees, public and private, in all religious denominations, it is difficult to realize that the evolution of the Christmas tree in this country covers comparatively few years; and that the little village of Hopedale was one of the pioneers in this line, some sixty years ago. Frank Dutcher – Hopedale Reminiscences

My Christmas began before daylight when three children strode quietly downstairs to see what was in their stockings fastened to the shelf in the sitting room. We soon heard, “I told you not to get up until light,” but like most parents they couldn’t be firm on Christmas Day and they soon joined us. Anna Thwing Spaulding – Milford Daily News

Click here to read more of Christmas in Early Hopedale.

Click on the headline to see the rest of the story from Dec. 1978.

December 21 – Parklands and Hopedale Pond. The weather is cold enough for snow, but has been too warm for much of this month for ice to form and last.

December 22 -With temperatures running between 20 and 22 during the day, and less than that overnight, a little ice covered the pond again.

From the Boston Globe.

Click here for the details, at the bottom of a very long page.

Former Draper site, seen from Hopedale Street
December 28.

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Hopedale in December 2024

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