Hopedale Community (Corporate Name)

Its Constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations of the Hopedale Community, 1853.

Its Constitution, by-laws, and regulations of Fraternal Community Number One located at Hopedale, Milford, Worcester Co. Mass., 1845: p. 2, etc. (Fraternal Community, no. 1, formed at Mendon, Mass. 1/28/1841 by about 30 individuals who purchased Jones' Farm, alias the Dale, in Milford and named it Hopedale; took possession April 1842 and commenced operations; Christian community)

LC data base, 1/25/90 (hdg.: Hopedale Community; usage: Hopedale Community)

Webster's new geog. dict., 1980 (Hopedale; town, Worcester Co., Mass.; location of a Utopian religious community estab. 1841 by a joint-stock co. under leadership of Adin Ballou, Universalist minister; experiment ended, and co. dissolved 1856)

Americana, 1981 (Hopedale Community; founded in Hopedale, Mass. in 1841 by the Rev. Adin Ballou, a Universalist clergyman)

Britannica 11 (cf. Hopedale; hist. of Hopedale centers around the Rev. Adin Ballou; he founded Hopedale, or Fraternal Community No. 1 in Milford in April 1842, the first compact of the community having been drawn up in Jan. 1841)

Ballow, A. History of the Hopedale Community, 1897: p. 37, etc. (formed 1/28/1841 as Fraternal Community No. 1; its members along with other adherents of Practical Christianity participated in Hopedale Quarterly Conference; July 1847 name changed to Hopedale Community)

Hopedale Unitarian Parish WWW site, viewed Aug. 24, 2010: History (Hopedale Unitarian Parish was formed Oct. 2, 1867 out of the remnants of the dissolved Hopedale Community, by its frist minister, Adin Ballou) http://www.hopedaleunitarian.org