Baptist Church, Lexington

Name: Baptist Church
Address: Lexington, MA, US

A church in Lexington, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1908 and 1950.

The line reading Baptist Church in the 1908 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1908 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1908	Baptist Church	the scanned index
1950	First Baptist Church	the scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Baptist Church

First Baptist Church

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published in the same year as the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Baptists. - The Baptist Church is located at West Acton. It was organized July 10, 1846, with a membership of twenty-three persons. The present membership is over one hundred ; the average congregations 200. The Sabbath-school has always been a flourishing adjunct of the church, now numbering one hundred and fifty. They have an attractive meeting-house, located centrally in the village, with all the modern contrivances to promote the interest and profit of the worshipers. They have a large and instructive library connected with the society, adapted to give general culture as well as religious instruction- The following is a list of the pastors and the length of their pastorates: Rev. Horace Richardson, seven years ; Rev. W. H. Watson, seven years ; Rev.

Read the chapter on Acton Town.

Named in the same survey

5 establishments

The surveyors walked Middlesex County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Catholic Church	church	1908
Congregational Church	church	1908
Episcopal Church	church	1908
High School	school	1908
Unitarian Church	church	1950

Other churches in the atlases

Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Middlesex County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Lexington, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.