After his sophomore year at Harvard, Eben took a trip to Alaska. It turned out to be more of an adventure than planned. “The ship sailed to Nome through the Aleutian Islands to the Siberian coast and then to Point Barrow. When the ice pack broke, the ship rounded the Point and went eastward and was finally frozen in at a point forty miles west of the mouth of the Mackenzie. Winter quarters were built on the shore. Eben and three companions left the Arctic in November of 1913 and with the assistance of dog teams crossed the uncharted Endicott Range and arrived on the Yukon River, returning to Boston for Christmas.” Click here for more about the trip.
April News
1891 – April 13 – The first streetcar by electric-storage battery power, was run over the Milford & Hopedale system on Central and Main streets with newspaper men and others as guests.
1892 – April 14 – Milford Electric Light & Power Co. votes to extend the incandescent lamp street lighting to Hopedale.
Click above to see the stained-glass windows at Sacred Heart Church
Town Park project. Click picture to see more.
Hopkinton Common.
The picture on the left is from the April 15 issue of the Milford News showing a horse stuck in mud in Framingham. The picture on the right shows a horse stuck in mud by Dutcher Street in Hopedale in 1950. Click here for more pictures and the article about that.
Work has been going on this month on the fire station hose tower. A 1900-pound bell used to hang up there. Click on the picture to see where it is now. Click here to see the Buildings of New England site page on the fire station. Click here to go to the first of two pages on the history of the Hopedale Fire Department.
Lots of familiar faces in that old Building #19 ad. Thanks for it DJ.
Some time ago, Charlie Gaffney gave me over 60 pictures of Hopedale Highway Department workers and equipment. Recently we got together for him to give me names of some of them. He was able to identify six men who worked for the department years ago. Click here to go to a page showing the pictures where Charlie could identify one or more of them.
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