The Model Company Town: Urban Design Through Private Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century New England

Toward a racial abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the origins of The Pioneer Fund

“…(Ballou, 1897, p. 288;see Mass, 1990 andSpann, 1992) As the Draper enterprise flourished, Ballou's ideal Christian society faded slowly into memory. Hopedale became a company town under the paternalistic guidance of the Draper family and, though the Company itself is no more, it still remains a landmark of community design (Garner, 1984;Spann, 1992). George's son, George Albert, married Jessie Fremont Preston of Kentucky, the daughter of a prominent Confederate Civil War General.…”