Sports, Park and Pond Menu

Sports, Park, Parklands and Pond Menu

The Mill River

A Gordon Hopper article on the history of the river.

The pond, 1905, 1920, 1945 and 2003

Hopedale Pond and Parklands

- slideshow on YouTube

Field Days

Field Day photos

Nineteen on four pages

The Gym

- Milford News articles from 1955

The Boston Celtics at the Draper Gym

The pond in the early twentieth century

- Boat races, boathouses, and parasols.

Swans on the pond

Draper Field

Draper baseball, 1948

Hardball Paternalism, Hardball Politics

- Labor relations and Blackstone Valley baseball

Town Park History

by Gordon Hopper

Town Park

- early 1900s

Pre-1910 Hopedale Pond photos

Tub race

Draper soccer team, 192

Draper field day, 1929

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

Women's s

oftball team, 1943

Errecting department softball team

Undefeated - the Hopedale High basketball team of 1956-57

Little League All-stars. 1959

JV Basketball team - 1961-62

Park and pond memories from the '50s

Kids at the pond

- most identified

Women's Club Fair, 1951 at the town park

Park programs 1967

- fishing derby and tennis tournament

Millstones at the Freedom Street park entrance

- Where they came from and how they got there.

Soapbox derby race, Freedom Street, 1950

Arnold Nealley

- Hunter and fisherman

Nipmuc Rod & Gun Club

The Parklands

A Walk Through the Parklands, with pictures and text -

Hopedale Street to the First Bridge

Second Fireplace to Third Fireplace

Rustic Bridge to Freedom

(It's not necessary to come back here to go through all of

these pages. Each

one has a link to

the next.)

Fisherm

n's Island

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

Fisherman's Island Eagle Scout project.

Carpenter Road

- Not actually in the Parklands, but nearby. A nice walk in the woods off of the G&U

tracks

Warren Henry Manning

- The landscape architect who designed the Town Park and Parklands.

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

John Stanas - champion swimmer

The Howarth sisters - record-setting swimmers

Hopedale's Glorified Mill Pond

Dredging Hopedale Pond

, 1949

Flood, 1955

Hopedale Pond, 1962

- a few names and faces

The last years of swimming at Hopedale Pond

Plowing Hopedale Pond

Ice-out

When does the ice on Hopedale Pond melt?

Hopedale Pond and Parklands, 2009

- Slideshow on YouTube.

Hopedale Pond

- August 14, 2010

Hopedale Pond

- September 1, 2010

Repairing the dam

- 2010

Now and Then at

Hopedale Pond

Now and Then at the

Hopedale Country Club

Pistol, rifle and skeet shooting

Fanny Osgood

- One of the best known woman golfer of the early twentieth century.

The Ski Hill

- Read about the Hopedale Ski Hill on a website of memories of long-gone hills.