Elaine Malloy, Daniel Malloy, and Alan J. Ryan.
 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. This utopian experiment, the longest-running in Massachusetts history, faltered in the 1850s and the community underwent a dramatic renaissance. Within a few short decades, the Draper family became a driving force that was 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 200 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 the ostentatious homes of the mill-owners. There are images of townspeople from yesteryear, from children enjoying summer recreation to men hard at work in the Draper Company foundry, and rare views of the construction of well-known neighborhoods such as Inman Street, Oak Street, and Dutcher Street.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 Hopedale resident Elaine Malloy is the former director of the Bancroft Memorial Library. She led the campaign for the restoration of Hopedale's graceful marble Statue of Hope in 2001, is a past member of the Hopedale Historical Commission, and a current member of the Friends of Historic Hopedale. Alan Ryan is a member of the Hopedale Board of Selectmen and of the Hopedale Historical Commission. He is a writer and an editor who has worked for Computerworld and as a freelancer. Daniel Malloy, a Hopedale native, is a historian and retired teacher.
   
   
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