Baptist Church, Stoneham

Name: Baptist Church
Address: Stoneham, MA, US

A church in Stoneham, Massachusetts, named once, in the 1916 atlas.

The line reading First Baptist Church in the 1916 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1916 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1916	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

On the National Register

First Baptist Church

Matched to this establishment on the distinguishing word baptist.

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 8 years before 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

4 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
Congregational Church	church	1916
High School	school	1916
High School	school	1916
Rolfe's Hotel	hotel	1916

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 Stoneham, 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.