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Baptist Church, Reading

A church in Reading, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1897 and 1918.

The line reading Baptist Church in the 1897 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1897 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1897Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1918First 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
First Baptist Church

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 11 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 27 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 27 in Middlesex County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Albion Hotel in the 1897 atlasAlbion Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading New Baptist Church in the 1897 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Catholic Church & Schoo in the 1897 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1897 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1897 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1897 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1897 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1897 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Globe Hotel in the 1897 atlasGlobe Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Winthrop School in the 1897 atlasHigh Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Livermore School in the 1897 atlasHigh Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1897 atlasHigh Schoolschool1897
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
The index line reading Rolfe's Hotel in the 1897 atlasRolfe's Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1897 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1897 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1897 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Water's Governor Works in the 1897 atlasWaters Governor Worksworks1897
The index line reading Allen Chair Co in the 1918 atlasAllen Chair Cochair factory1918
The index line reading Montvale Congregational Church in the 1918 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1918
The index line reading Danish Methodist Episcopal Church, 5 in the 1918 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1918
The index line reading Trinity Episcopal Church in the 1918 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1918
The index line reading Adams School in the 1918 atlasHigh Schoolschool1918

Other churches in the atlases

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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 Reading, 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.