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.

                                                 Hopedale Coal & Ice Company

    At explained in the paragraph near the top of the page, Hopedale Stable evolved into Hopedale Coal &
    Ice. Ice was cut on Hopedale Pond and stored in a big ice house on the west side of Hopedale Pond,
    where the Gannett home is now. It was probably in the early 1940s 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 is 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 a few years ago - 2005 or 2006. Thanks to Russ Dennett for assistance with
    this page.

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