It began quietly in 1842 as a utopian community known as the Dale
of Hope on farmland that was then part of Milford. The followers of
Rev. Adin Ballou settled in that year, sharing a farmhouse and
chores, as well as ideals and abolitionist inclinations. After the
longest-running utopian experiment in Massachusetts faltered,
however, the community underwent a dramatic renaissance beginning
in the 1850s. Within a few short decades, the Draper family became
a driving force-instrumental in the community's separation from
Milford, incorporation as Hopedale and development as the cotton
loom-making capital of the Industrial Revolution.
Hopedale contains more than two hundred photographs portraying
life, leisure, and community spirit in Hopedale from the 1840s to
the early 1960s. Included are the town's industrial center, public
buildings, parks, unique duplex housing, and ostentatious
mill-owner homes. Hopedale depicts the town undergoing times of
prosperity and facing floods and other disasters. It also examines
the citizens working hard, enjoying time off, and displaying their
patriotism.
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