Hopkinton

The picturesque starting place for the BostonMarathon, the town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts,is home to a rich variety of industries and businesses.Residents here have strong ties to the community, asevidenced by the town’s wealth of festivals, public parks,and gardens.This exciting new photographic history takes us to thetime when electric streetcars ran in Hopkinton and thecoming of the railroad shaped the growth of the town.We catch glimpses of residents hard at work in the area’sold boot and shoe shops, granite quarries, sawmills, andcranberry bogs. From views of early town government,schools, and church buildings to intimate scenes ofhome and everyday life, the over 150 rare and previouslyunpublished images contained in Hopkinton create adramatic mosaic of the town’s past.