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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
Canoes on the pond
The pond in the early twentieth century Boat races, boathouses, and parasols.
Swans on the pond
Draper Field
Hardball Paternalism, Hardball Politics Labor relations and Blackstone Valley baseball
Town Park - early 1900s
Milford Ford baseball team, 1933
Softball team, 1943
Errecting department softball team
Park and pond memories from the '50s
Soapbox derby race, Freedom Street, 1950
The Parklands
A Walk Through the Parklands, with pictures and text - Hopedale Street to the First Bridge First Bridge to Second Fireplace Second Fireplace to Third Fireplace 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.)
Fishermen's Island
Parklands, 1899 - 1905 - Reports of the Park Commissioners
Parklands Memories - Tom Lipsky
Parklands map, 1903 - 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.
Park Department History This is an extensive history of the Park, pond and Parklands from 1899 to the present, done by Rick Espanet.
Hopedale Pond without water - December 2006.
Boy Scout project at the Lookout, 1960s.
John Stanas - champion swimmer.
Hopedale's Glorified Mill Pond
Tub race
Dredging Hopedale Pond, 1949
Plowing Hopedale Pond
Ice-out When does the ice on Hopedale Pond melt?
Vandalism and litter at Fishermen's Island
New Golf Course Planned - 1953
Pistol, rifle and skeet shooting
Fanny Osgood - One of the most famous of the women golfers of the early twentieth century.
The Ski Hill Read about the Hopedale Ski Hill on a website of memories of long-gone hills.
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.
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