Newest Condominiums and
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| $ 226,500 |
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Condominium
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2 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 338,500 |
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 183,500 |
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Single Family Home
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2 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 354,900 |
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 220,000 |
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Single Family Home
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3 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 334,900 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 409,900 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 369,500 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 419,900 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $2,700,000 |
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Single Family Home
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11 Bedrooms
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7 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 249,900 |
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Condominium
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2 Bedrooms
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2 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $1,495,000 |
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Single Family Home
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6 Bedrooms
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6 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| $ 184,900 |
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Single Family Home
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1 Bedrooms
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1 Full Baths - 0 Half Baths
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| $ 424,900 |
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Single Family Home
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4 Bedrooms
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3 Full Baths - 1 Half Baths
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| Hopedale, Massachusetts |
| Population |
5,666 |
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| Tax Rate |
11.65 (2008) |
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| Town Web Site |
Town Web Site |
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| School Research |
Department of Education
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Independent Research
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Hopedale, Massachusetts is located
Eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Milford on the northeast, Bellingham on the
east, Mendon on the south and west, and Upton on the northwest. Hopedale is 20
miles southeast of Worcester and 31 miles southwest of Boston. Principal highways are State Routes 16 and 140. Interstate 495 is easily
accessible in neighboring Milford. There is no freight rail service in Hopedale, but the town has easy access
to the network of intermodal facilities serving Eastern Massachusetts and
Rhode Island.
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| Hopedale is on the southeastern edge of Worcester County and occupies the
valley of the upper Mill River. Benjamin Albee set up a grist mill on the
Mill River to grind settlers' corn in 1669 in the first recorded
settlement. Until the mid-19th century, the town followed the pattern of
many communities with a combination of agriculture and small industry. But
in 1842, Adin Ballou and his followers, idealists who wanted to combine
biblical individualism with social responsibility and religious liberalism,
purchased 600 acres in what is now downtown Hopedale to establish Fraternal
Community Number One. Thirty houses, chapel and workshops were built on an
architectural plan for the 170 people who joined in the social experiment,
which combined farming with manufacturing, and took strong social stands on
temperance, women's rights and abolition.
Unfortunately, disagreements over how to administer the community ended in
bankruptcy by 1856 and George and Ebenezer Draper, followers of Ballou,
took over the property. The brothers made doors, window sashes and blinds
and ran a printing office, but they discovered early on that their most
profitable business was making textile machinery. By 1880 there were 400
patents held in Hopedale for textile machinery, 800 Draper employees and $1
million in sales. By 1892, with the advent of the Northrop Loom, Draper
became the largest producer of textile machinery in the country. There
were 78,000 Northrop looms sold in 1903 because they used less power and
could be operated by untrained hands (which resulted in the textile
industry abandoning New England and moving south). By World War I, the
majority of the 400,000 looms in the United States had been made by Draper
and the company was selling to China, Russia and Mexico.
The Drapers believed that good houses make good workers and created a model
self-contained company town with one of the best collections of
architecturally significant double houses in the country, built on hills
and in valleys in garden settings which preserved the views. The company
charged low rents, and provided high quality housing, impeccable
maintenance and recreation opportunities. Workers left their handsomely
designed duplex houses to walk to work at Hopedale Machine, or Northrop
Loom, or Hopedale Elastic and left work to play in company parks or stroll
along company streets. In addition, the Drapers donated the high school,
playground and bandstand to the town and built roads, sidewalks, sewage
systems and water and gas lines to service their 250 buildings of worker
Department of Housing and Community Development
Mitt Romney, Governor, Jane Wallis Gumble, Director
housing. Only one strike, in 1913, was ever recorded in Hopedale through
the most turbulent eras of American labor unrest.
The Drapers' secular, paternalistic industrial complex was highly
successful, resulting in an integrated, planned community with innovative
19th and early 20th century employee housing, a central institutional
complex and proprietors' estates, all of which remain essentially intact. |
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Some information gathered on Hopedale, MA is courtesy of Commonwealth Communities at Mass.gov
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