Hopedale in May 2016

These photos were sent by Jack Ghiringhelli. Here's what he had

to say about them.

This is a picture of the Draper Loom going into the

M

useum of

I

ndustrial

H

istory

) in Bethlehem where I am a volunteer.

It's an XD model manufactured in 1948. It will be a static exhibit

only. The museum is scheduled to open the beginning of August

this year. There will be many textile pieces of equipment on display

.

Jack also sent

a link to the museum's page of videos

. If you're

interested in machinery from the past, it's well worth a look.

Here's a image from a site on

the

London Blitz.

This is just a small part of London.

About 2,000 bombs dropped in the week shown in the graph.

for more.

Above - Hazel Street, with entrance to the Parklands on the

left,and a Hopedale-Milford bound stone on the right.

Right -

Dorie's Emporium

at Hazel Street and Route 140.

Hopedale in May 2016

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Beaver-cut tree, about 100 yards downstream

from

the Ru

stic Bridge.

This appears to be an

older cut than the one shown on the April page.

The boarding house called the Park

House was on the corner of Dutcher

and Freedom streets. After it was torn

down in May 1937, the lot was vacant

for many years. The picture on the right

shows the house that's there now.

for more on the Park House and

Hopedale's other boarding houses.

Milk Street - Boston

Photos from a Community House

Women's Club costume ball held in

the early 1950s.

to see

more pictures from Women's Club

events in that era.

I thought some of you would be interested to know that Irwin Engineers is

looking into the Draper property. Here's a link to

the Irwin website

.

I think there are only two towns (maybe three)

in Massachusetts, incorporated later than

Hopedale, and Millville is one of them.

Not called on account of rain - May 4.

C lick here to read about the Henry Patrick Store.

Henry Patrick's store has been gone for fifty years. The site

became the

parking lot seen here, and the building

that replaced the store

was first

Rico's Food Center, later converted into a medical office building.

I wish I could tell you that I took this picture, but unfortunately, no. It's from

The National Wildlife Federation website. I did see a fox, though.

Twice,

actually. Probably the same one, because the sightings were only

a

couple

of hundred yards apart. The first was on Monday morning, May

2, at

about 8:

30 am. It crossed Freedom Street in front of me, in Milford,

just

over the

town line. The second time was Friday afternoon, May 6, on

Northrop

Street, just across from the end of Tammie. Both times it

moved

out of

sight before I could grab my camera.

I heard

today

(May 10)

that

there are two families of foxes, numbering over

a dozen, living

elsewhere

in

town. They're out and about a lot, so I hope to

get

some pictures.

Thanks to Mike Deloia (New England Floors) for this

insulator that he found alongside the G&U tracks.

State House and Boston Common - Photo by DJ Malloy

Town election - May - Click here to see results.

This evening (May 11) I

went to take a look

for the

foxes I'd recently heard about, and I

didn't have to

wait. There were a few in

sight, but the one in these

two pictures

was the only one in range for my camera.

Here's a paragraph from the

National Wildlife

Federation site

that tells how to tell a red fox from a

gray fox.

The surefire way to tell the difference is to look for the

color at the tip of the tail. Gray foxes have black-

tipped tails, while red fox tails are white. Although they

are very similar in name and appearance, the gray

fox and the red fox are only distant cousins,

belonging to different genera in the family Canidae.

Covering the salt pile near Chelsea Creek - May 12. Photo by DJ.

Thanks to former Hopedale resident Terry Studer for

sending an envelope full of Hopedale postcards,

including the two here. The Bancroft Park homes,

above, are still there, but the General Draper

mansion was razed about 90 years ago. Hopedale

Junior-Senior High School stands on the site now.

Thanks to John Chute for sending an early twentieth century book on

textile machinery. A few years ago John sent his memories of growing

up in White City. White City, Hopedale, of course, not to be confused with

White City , Shrewsbury.

.

It happened again! Another truck hit the G&U

bridge over Hopedale Street. It would have

made a better picture if I had gotten up on

the bridge for it. I took these from my car.

The former Little White Market on

Depot Street is now the Hay-Wagon.

Draper workers, c. 1900

Surf's up! Carol P. kept nagging me on one of our windy

days this week, to get down to the pond and get a picture

of it with whitecaps. I should have listened and gotten

down there right away. Probably better then. Anyway, you

can tell that it was windy.

Window art in A

l

lston.

Photos sent by DJ Malloy

Razing 124 Mendon Street - May 20. Below - May 23.

Lady slippers in the Parklands - May 20.

The gable-front, three-bay cottage form with end-bay

entry persisted in the area

into the 1870s, as seen at

124 Mendon Street (ca. 1875), which includes a full

width front porch.

Hopedale Village Historic District

National Register Nomination.

Razing 114-116 Mendon Street - May 25.

Only two extant buildings in Hopedale Village are believed to predate the

establishment of the Hopedale Community settlement of 1841. The Cook

house, 114-116 Mendon Street (ca. 1820) is 1 1/2 stories on a granite

foundation with a side-gable roof, brick chimney located behind the ridge,

and a five-bay main block with later side-gabled extensions to the southwest.

Windows and center entry on the facade are placed close to the eaves.

Hopedale Historic Village National Register Nomination

Hopedale Village Cemetery - May 28