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 c. 1895 - Fourteen photos Old posters    Hopedale center, c.  1890       More    From top of Unitarian Church steeple, 2010     Bancroft Park houses, c. 1900    Edwin and Carrie Darling, c. 1900    Auto Parade - 1904    May Day, 1913    Hopedale Suffrage Club    Elect Hoover Committee    Ice storm - 1921    Best town? Low taxes, no lawyers, Boston Post Hopedale cartoon,1925 The Hope Street Bridge   Crime in Hopedale - the 1920s and 1930s. 1935    A photo trip along Dutcher Street, decades ago    A photo trip along Hopedale Street decades ago.    "Our Gang" parades of 1936 and 1937    Bands    Minstrel Show    High School Washington trip, 1936, '37 and '38    1938 hurricane    Occupation, women, 1939         Men       The icehouse   The Highway Department   Highway Department vehicles    Hopedale center with fire station    Hopedale Street Fire Station    Dutcher Street Fire Station, c. 1925   Life in Hopedale too dull to bear - 1933    The Blacksmith   1938 Hurricane Damage    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.   Lilliputian weddings, 1940s   Snow in Hopedale, 1940s and later   First TV in Hopedale   New homes, 1949   Horse stuck in mud for 11 hours - 1950    The Driftway and Cutler Street    The Little Red Schoolhouse   Women's Club Fair - 1951        Kids at the fair      Flood of 1955 - at Drapers     -     at Spindleville   Paper drive - Class of '55    Hopedale Community Historical Society   - founded in 1957 Play program, Park Street School, 1958    A dirty map    Patrick's/Rico's Food Center/Drugstore   Auto accidents - Page 1     Page 2    1960s and 1970s pics from Miriam Grillo Loiselle National Honor Society - 1966        1972 Blueberry pie eating contest, Town Park, 1970    Perambulating the bounds, 1971    Garages (The old Draper garages) Bicentennial parade    Tree belt planting  1980s    Hopedale's economy in 1985    Hopedale centennial, 1986    Glass town seal    Fighter jet lands at Hopedale Airport, 1996    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    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   Mystery house on Mendon Street    Chuck Patton's Mack at Mack Truck Museum     Memorial School art show, 2013    Dam and two small ponds near Freedom Street/town dump.    Capping  the dump - 2013    Snow, January, February 2015    See also homepage menus column for recent pictures menus by year.                                                   HOME    .