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Baptist Church

A church in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 11 atlases between 1887 and 1910.

The line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1888Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1889Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1893Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1893First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1898First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1904First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1904Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1904First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1905Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1910Baptist 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 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The town church of the first settlers has two direct descendants - the First Parish (Unitarian) and the Calvinistic Congregational. The former has a building dating from 1837, standing at the head of the upper common, and representing a type of architecture which is becoming too rare; its chapel is of more modern construction. The "C. C." church, as it is commonly called, is at the corner of Main and Rollstone streets, with its third building, of brown sandstone, dedicated in 1897; its large chapel is of earlier date. From the C. C. church sprang the Rollstone Congregational church in 1868, and its gothic edifice stands- on Main street near the passenger station. This denomination also has German, Swedish and Finnish churches, each with its own building.

Read the chapter on Fitchburg City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 65 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester 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 65 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlasOpera Houseopera house1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Collier & Butler, Woolen Mills in the 1888 atlasCollier & Butler, Woolen Millsmill1888
The index line reading Darling, A. W. & N., Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1888 atlasJournal Printingprinting1888
The index line reading Jr Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasJr Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Mason, J., & Sons), Cotton Mill in the 1888 atlasMason, J., & Sons), Cotton Millmill1888
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1888 atlasMethodist Epise. Churchchurch1888

Other churches in the atlases

15

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

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Worcester 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.