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Baptist Church, Wakefield

A church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1915.

The line reading Baptist Church in the 1892 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1892Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1915First 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 16 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

22 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Albion Hotel in the 1892 atlasAlbion Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1892 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Catholic Church (Dell Ave.) in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1892 atlasCity Water Worksworks1892
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1892 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1892
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 Trinity Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Fales, A., & Sons, Saw Mill in the 1892 atlasFales, A., & Sons, Saw Millsaw mill1892
The index line reading Glendale School in the 1892 atlasHigh Schoolschool1892
The index line reading School (Myrtle St.) in the 1892 atlasHigh Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Old Colony Hotel in the 1892 atlasOld Colony Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading South Framingham Hotel in the 1892 atlasSouth Framingham Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1892 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Waters Governor Works in the 1892 atlasWaters Governor Worksworks1892
The index line reading Greenwood School in the 1915 atlasHigh Schoolschool1915
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1915 atlasHigh Schoolschool1915
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1915 atlasMill Pondmill1915
The index line reading New State Finn Church in the 1915 atlasNew State Finn Churchchurch1915

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 Wakefield, 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.