Hopedale Pond
The pond, 1905, 1920, 1945 and 2003
The pond in the early twentieth century – Boat races, boathouses, and parasols.
Hopedale’s Glorified Mill Pond
Dredging Hopedale Pond, 1949
Park and pond memories from the ’50s
Flood, Draper Corp. 1955 – Outside the plant – Inside the plant
Hopedale Pond, 1962 – a few names and faces
Kids at the pond – most identified
The last years of swimming at Hopedale Pond.
Plowing snow off the ice on Hopedale Pond
Ice-out When does the ice on Hopedale Pond melt?
Fisherman’s Island Eagle Scout project.
The Bridges of Hopedale Pond (Freedom Street, trolley, Cutler’s, Rawson’s, Rustic)
Hopedale Pond, August 3, 2006
Hopedale Pond without water – December 2006. And also dry on August 2010.
Hopedale Pond, October 20, 2009
Hopedale Pond – August 14, 2010
Hopedale Pond – September 1, 2010
Repairing the dam – 2010
Now and Then at Hopedale Pond
Vandalism at Fisherman’s Island, Spring 2012.
Parklands
A Walk Through the Parklands, with pictures and text – Hopedale Street to the First Bridge First Bridge to Second Fireplace Mid-point Firepace to Maroney’s Grove Rustic Bridge to Freedom Street The Lookout Saltbox Road (It’s not necessary to come back here to go through all of these pages. Each one has a link to the next.)
Parklands, 1899 – 1905 – Reports of the Park Commissioners
Parklands Memories – Tom Lipsky
Parklands map, 1904 – With names of property owners of the area at that time.
Parklands map, 1913 – By landscape architect, Warren Henry Manning. Much more detailed than the 1903 map.
Parklands Forestry Project – 2012
Parklands map, 2014 – Map shows Eagle Scout project distance marker locations.
Park and Parklands History – Gordon Hopper article.
The Parklands and the G&U Railroad – Railroad expansion, etc.
Willard Taft plaque near Parklands entrance
Park Department History This is an extensive history of the Park, pond and Parklands from 1899 to the present, done by Rick Espanet.
Adirondacks at the Lookout
Carpenter Road – Not actually in the Parklands, but nearby. A nice walk in the woods off of the G&U tracks. (Or, it used to be.)
Warren Henry Manning – The landscape architect who designed the Town Park and Parklands.
Drone View of the Park and Parklands
Parklands Fairy Walk 2018 2019 2022 2023
Town Park
Field Day photos Nineteen on four pages
Town Park History by Gordon Hopper
Town Park – early 1900s
Park programs 1967 – fishing derby and tennis tournament
Millstones at the Freedom Street park entrance – Where they came from and how they got there.
Drone View of the Park and Parklands
Sports
Hardball Paternalism, Hardball Politics – Labor relations and Blackstone Valley baseball.
Draper soccer team, 1923 Milford Ford baseball team, 1933
Hopedale High baseball team, c. 1935
Draper Blackstone Valley League baseball team of 1935, at 1976 reunion.
Tennis champs of 1938
Errecting department softball team
Undefeated – the Hopedale High basketball team of 1956-57
Little League All-stars. 1959
JV Basketball team – 1961-62
John Stanas – champion swimmer.
The Howarth sisters – record-setting swimmers
Pistol, rifle and skeet shooting
Fanny Osgood – One of the best known woman golfer of the early twentieth century.
The J’s – Senior Ruth team
Milford Legion Baseball, 1970, 1972
Cross country team, 2007 – Winners of Division 2 Central Massachusetts and state titles.
Lekia Cowen – Milford Daily News Athlete of the Week, December 30, 2007.
Tom LIberatore – Milford News – Yesterday’s Hero
Road race – August 21, 2010. Road race – August 20, 2011 Road race – May 2013
Milford News article on Coach Joe Small – May 2012
Hopedale High boys basketball 2020 – Going to state finals, until…
Girls’ basketball wins state championship
Hopedale High baseball – 2024
Hopedale High School Athletic Hall of Fame
Miscellaneous
The Mill River A Gordon Hopper article on the history of the river.
Draper Gym – Milford News articles from 1955
The Boston Celtics at the Draper Gym Bill Russell at the Larches
Soapbox derby races, 1950, 1951 and 1952
Arnold Nealley – Hunter and fisherman
Nipmuc Rod & Gun Club
Now and Then at the Hopedale Country Club
The Ski Hill – Read about the Hopedale Ski Hill on a website of memories of long-gone hills.
More on the ski hill – Milford News photos for 1967 and 1968.
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