Sports, Park and Pond Menu    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, August 3, 2006   Hopedale Pond without water - December 2006. Hopedale Pond, October 20, 2009   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.                         Recent Pictures Menu                                       HOME