Hopedale Coal & Ice Company

Hopedale Coal & Ice Company

At one time there was a Hopedale Coal Company and a Hopedale Ice Company.

Eventually they joined to form Hopedale Coal & Ice.

Ice was cut on Hopedale Pond

and

stored in a big icehouse on the west side of Hopedale Pond, where the Gannett home is

now. It was probably in the early1940s when they stopped getting ice from the pond and

started making it.

I remember ice being delivered to a few homes in my neighborhood on Oak Street in the

1950s. I don't know when that stopped, but I doubt i

was still going on by the late fifties.

The buildings that housed Coal & Ice were originally some of the Hopedale Stable

buildings. The picture with three cars showing was taken in 2002. The big building in that

photo (and in the two above it) was first a Hopedale Stable barn and later was where the

ice was made. After it was no longer used for that, it was operated as Hopedale Hardware

for many years in the mid-twentieth century. It was razed

around

2005 or 2006.

The pictu

at the bottom was taken in May 2007. Thanks to Russ Dennett for assistance

with this

page.

Thanks also to John Butcher for the Hopedale Stable office photo, the artificial ice

article, and the timeline below.

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In 1870 our establishment was called the Hopedale Stable Company. It was
situated on Hopedale Street opposite Union Street. We dealt primarily in hay,
wood and ice then. In 1901 Hopedale Stable moved to its present location on
Hope Street,and in July 1907, the company was incorporated under its present
name of Hopedale Coal and Ice Company. Milford Daily News, March 30, 1965.

c 2002

2007

At some point, the Hopedale Stable Company became the Hopedale Coal

Company and the Hopedale Ice Company. After a few years, they were

combined to form Hopedale Coal & Ice Company.

Timeline by John Butcher

The former Hopedale Coal & Ice office, used as a

home in

recent years, razed in November 2014.

Click here

for more

photos of the demolition of Coal & Ice buildings at that time.