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Chair Shop, Ashburnham

A shop in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases of 1904.

The line reading Chair Shop in the 1904 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1904 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1904Chair Shopthe scanned index
1904Pierce, W. B., Chair Shopthe 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.

Chair Shop
Pierce, W. B., Chair Shop

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 15 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Of the thirty-eight mill privileges which have been utilized within the borders of the town from the beginning, some fifteen have been wholly or chiefly employed in the production of lumber for building or other general purposes, and commanded in their day the service of a considerable number of men. But these have all been given up or made subservient to other interests hereafter to be noticed. Of the halfdozen grist-mills that have been erected to supply the needs of the community in that particular, only one remains, that of Mr. Eli Merriam, who has built up an extensive flour and grain business in connection with the production of meal. The building occupied by him was erected in 1856 by his father, Mr. Caleb S.

Read the chapter on Westminster Town.

Named in the same survey

18 establishments

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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Advent Church, at Fiskdale in the 1904 atlasAdvent Church, at Fiskdale, 10church1904
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1904 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1904 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Chapel Mills Mfg Co in the 1904 atlasChapel Mills Mfg Comill1904
The index line reading City Hotel in the 1904 atlasCity Hotelhotel1904
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1904 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Darling, A. W., Woolen Mill in the 1904 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1904
The index line reading Gibson, B. G Wool and shoddy mill in the 1904 atlasGibson, B. G Wool and shoddy millmill1904
The index line reading High School, (New) in the 1904 atlasHigh Schoolschool1904
The index line reading Hill & Bosley, Foundry in the 1904 atlasHill & Bosley, Foundryfoundry1904
The index line reading Hotel De Witt in the 1904 atlasHotel De Witthotel1904
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1904 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1904
The index line reading Thayer, E. D., Jr., Woolen Mills in the 1904 atlasJr Woolen Millmill1904
The index line reading Keegan Woolen Mill, * in the 1904 atlasKeegan, L., Woolen Millmill1904
The index line reading Satinette Mill in the 1904 atlasSatinette Millmill1904
The index line reading Pourtellott Hotel, * in the 1904 atlasTourtellott Hotelhotel1904
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1904 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Valley Wollen Mill in the 1904 atlasValley Wollen Millmill1904

Other shops in the atlases

2

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 Ashburnham, 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.