Editing Hope Mills, North Carolina (section)

==Today==
[[File:Hope Mills Town Hall.JPG|thumb|200px|left|Hope Mills Town Hall]]
While the town is small, it offers its residents a full variety of services and recreation. Public parks and recreational facilities are located throughout the town. These facilities provide walking trails to tennis courts. Hope Mills has its own police and fire departments and is only minutes away from four major hospitals. The new county library provides a number of special services, including summer reading programs and public meeting rooms. Five shopping centers, the historic downtown district, a post office, two medical clinics,  elementary schools (Baldwin, Rockfish, Collier, and Cashwell), middle schools (South View and Hope Mills), two high schools (South View and Gray's Creek) and more than 20 churches round out the community.
{{wide image |Snowy Hope Mills Lake.jpg|950px|[[Hope Mills Lake]], January 2009, after a rare snowfall}}