Links to Hopedale Related Sites
Businessmen of Milford, Ashland, Hopkinton, Hopedale, etc., 1890
Digital Treasures – Old photos from Hopedale, (as well as some copies of The Practical Christian, the newspaper of the Hopedale Community, and the Draper Corporation periodical, Cotto Chats) as well as many other towns and cities of central and western Massachusetts.
Draper plant before demolition by lakesideranch
Draper demolition – Drone views by massimages Peter Ostroskey
Genealogy – Hopedale families – The Dennett family The Albee family Do you have a Hopedale-related family website you’d like added here? Let me know. Email link on homepage. Genealogy section of Ballou’s HIstory of Milford.
Hopedale High Alumni Association
Hopedale Pond and Parklands, drone view
Hopedale Historic Village National Register Nomination
Hopedale Women’s History Project
Lowell National Historical Park – This is probably the only place in New England where you can visit a room filled with Draper looms – eighty-eight of them – many of them running.
Maps – The University of New Hampshire website has topographical maps for Hopedale (Blackstone and Milford quadrangles) and much of the rest of New England and New York for the years 189?, 1946 and 1953.
Massachusetts History – Mass Moments – This day in Massachusetts history. Draper/IWW strike – 1913
Milford – Vital Records to 1850
Milford – Adin Ballou’s History of Milford
Tour of Hopedale – 2009 – Many photos and excellent narration by Paul Hutchinson.
Upton – A brief history and some links.