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Baptist Church

A church in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named in 17 atlases between 1885 and 1950.

The line reading Baptist Church in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1887Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1892Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1892Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1897Zion Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1897Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1897New Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1897Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1903New Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1905Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1908Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1909Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1910Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1915First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1916First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1918First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1950First Baptist Churchthe 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
Zion Baptist Church
New Baptist Church
First Baptist Church

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 23 years after 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

24 of 41 establishments shown

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. See all 41 in Middlesex County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading E. F., Cider Mill in the 1885 atlasCider Millmill1885
The index line reading High School in the 1885 atlasHigh Schoolschool1885
The index line reading Taylor, L., Carriage Shop in the 1885 atlasTaylor, L., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1885
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1885 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1887 atlasCity Water Worksworks1887
The index line reading Fales, A., & Sons, Saw Mill in the 1887 atlasFales, A., & Sons, Saw Millsaw mill1887
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Old Colony Hotel in the 1887 atlasOld Colony Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading South Framingham Hotel in the 1887 atlasSouth Framingham Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Winthrop Hotel in the 1887 atlasWinthrop Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Albion Hotel in the 1892 atlasAlbion Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1892 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Lincoln School in the 1892 atlasLincoln Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1892 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1892 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Waters Governor Works in the 1892 atlasWaters Governor Worksworks1892
The index line reading City Hall in the 1897 atlasCity Hallcity hall1897
The index line reading Globe Hotel in the 1897 atlasGlobe Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1897 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1897 atlasMill Pondmill1897
The index line reading Oxles, A. D., Cabinet Shop in the 1897 atlasOxles, A. D., Cabinet Shopshop1897
The index line reading Pike, N. S., Carriage Shop in the 1897 atlasPike, N. S., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1897

Other churches in the atlases

17

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 Middlesex County, 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.