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Hopkinton - The Second Hundred Years (Hardcover)
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Hopkinton - The Second Hundred Years (Hardcover)
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Hopkinton, NY is a quiet little town in the northeast part of the
state, settled by New Englanders and built in the New England style
with a village green, white wood frame churches, and large
Victorian houses. Life here has generally moved at a leisurely
pace; yet Hopkinton's people have had their dramas - both comedy
and tragic - and their stories have been remembered. In 1903,
Carlton Sanford had a book published documenting the settling of
the town from a wilderness in 1802 through its first hundred years
of development and tracing the descendants of the first settlers.
Now Dale Burnett has written a folk history of the second hundred
years, chronicling the events in the lives of Hopkinton's people
and the town itself through the 20th century. Mr. Burnett has
researched each separate district of the township and spoken with
at least one person from each area to get its history from someone
who lived there. In addition to the facts one would expect -
businesses, history of the fire department, town officers - he has
taken almost every house along each road in the town and listed the
residents through the years, along with any tales that may have
been told about them. Based mainly on interviews with older
Hopkinton folk, some of whom were alive when Sanford's book came
out, the stories handed down have been preserved as the old people
told them. Facts are supported by newspaper articles, deeds and
other documents. Included are tales of Hopkinton's characters, its
three or four murders, and its one kidnapping case with still
unanswered questions. And, following Mr. Sanford's example, at the
end of "The Second Hundred Years" are genealogies submitted by
Hopkinton families, many of whomcan still trace their ancestry to
those early settlers.
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