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Hopedale is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located 25 miles southwest of Boston, in eastern Massachusetts . With origins as a Christian utopian community , the town was later home to Draper Corporation , a large loom manufacturer throughout the 20th century until its closure in 1980.
Hopedale is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main village in the town of Hopedale, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 3,753, out of 5,911 in the entire town of Hopedale. Hopedale is bordered to the northeast by the town of Milford and to the southwest by the town of Mendon.
The town of Hopedale's first proper library was established in 1840, and was located in a variety of places, including private residences, churches, and town hall, where it occupied the first floor in 1886. [2] This building was built for the town by Joseph Bubier Bancroft, in memory of his wife Sylvia.
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The Hopedale Village Historic District encompasses much of the historic 19th century industrial village center of Hopedale, Massachusetts.Its main focus is the mill complex of the Draper Company at Hopedale and Freedom Streets; the district includes much of northern Hopedale, extending along Dutcher and Freedom Streets, and including the mill pond.
The Hopedale Community was founded in Milford, Massachusetts, in 1843 by Adin Ballou. He and his followers purchased 600 acres (2.4 km 2 ) of land on which they built homes for the community members, chapels and the factories for which the company was initially formed.
Hopedale is the name of several places: In Canada: Hopedale, Newfoundland and Labrador; In the United Kingdom: Hopedale, a hamlet within the parish of Alstonefield, Staffordshire; In the United States: Hopedale, Illinois; Hopedale, Massachusetts, a New England town Hopedale (CDP), Massachusetts, the town center; The Hopedale Community, historic ...
Town hall meetings can be traced back to the colonial era of the United States and to the 19th century in Australia. [6] The introduction of television and other new media technologies in the 20th century led to a fresh flourishing of town hall meetings in the United States as well as experimentation with different formats in the United States and other countries, both of which continue to the ...