Early Hopedale House, Shop and Sawmill

Early Hopedale House, Shop and Sawmill

Below is

ank Dutcher's description of the picture

above.

It was sent to Harriet Sornborger, who was

the

librarian at the Bancroft Library for many years during the first half of the twentieth century. It

was

copied

from the original in the Hopedale Community Historical Society file at the

library

According to

the map

at the bottom of this page, the Lillie house w

near the southwest corner of Hopedale Pond.

As Dutcher

points out,

in the picture above

that's a glimpse

of the pond between the

shop and the sawmill.

In this 1851 map, the name H. Lillie appears near the

southwest corner of Hopedale Pond. The locations of

the saw mill and machine shop are also shown.