Our Town Of Hopkinton

Hi Prims, I was thinking I wanted to share with you our qaint town of Hopkinton. There is alot of history, in the 1800's it had a shoe factory with a train coming through. It was a small hard working town and everyone knew each other and watched out for each other, just like today. We all know each other and look out for one another!!Back then, the men would go to work and the women stayed at home doing the daily chores and taking care of the children, have supper on the table for their husbands after working 12 hours. The children would do their share as well for chores. They would leave school and go home and work on the farm, milking cows, feeding the animals, collecting the eggs for the next day, cleaning out the animal's cages. They all did their share, which today I find so different in family values, but I think it is the way you raise your children. Our son's get firewood everyday, we don't pay them as they are part of our family and we are a team. They shovel when it snows. Mr. Hillcrest snowblows with the machine but one boy cleans all the stairs and a path to the mail box and the other boy makes a path to the firewood and a path to put the trash cans out for trash day.  I always have hot chocolate when they all come in and warm up near the fire. In the summer they have chores also. Things have changed but it is the parents that need to give their children good morals and values, and I feel that we as parents have done this and are still doing it.
Below are some pictures of our town and things about it for you to enjoy.



Here is a sign Welcome to Hopkinton(1715).



Across the street is a great pond for kids and families to come and skate.

 The buiding you see me standing at used to be the old train station were you would get your tickets and wait for the train the building is old (1872) but the town moved it down to the pond and renovated it.
This is were the kids put their skates on and then hit the ice and have a ball, pictures of the building and here is one picture of some kids on the on ice skating and having fun.









Here is a picture of the old High School on the front it says High 1894 School all grades were there and look how small it is.



Here is our fire station
 

 and when we were there they had a call , and picture of the ambulance going out to a call.



Here is our police station, they just built this about 7yrs ago and it is beautiful.



The next picture you see is they carried the torch all the way from Greece to the  Boston Marathon that starts here in Hopkinton and this picture is the latern of the flame from Greece that NEVER goes out, it is special to all of our residents here in our little town.



 

and here is a plaque of the Flame of the Marathon



The next stop is the statue of the man that shoots off the gun that starts the Marathon.

 

  Across the street is a house I just love it was built in (1745). Here are some pictures of the home





Then our Town Hall built in(1715) and there are two pictures of the Town Hall





Of course we had to stop by  Hopkinton's own Country Plus, Judy was happy to see us and we took some pictures outside and inside.









We said bye to Judy and took off down the street to our small drug store( Hopkinton Drug),



 it is like family. A family run drug store and they have seen our children grow up and it is the same women and two men that still work there and we aren't a number they know us by name and some have become friends. I truly love living in a small town, we all look out for each other and I think that our founding fathers would be proud that we have kept it small and quaint!!!! I feel blessed to live in Hopkinton!!!

I hope you enjoyed our tour of the town, it was just something different.

Until next time prims,
~ Blessings and God Bless~
Tricia