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Cider Mill

A mill in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1885 and 1919.

The line reading E. F., Cider Mill in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885E. F., Cider Millthe scanned index
1901Cider Millthe scanned index
1906Whiting, G. A., Cider Millthe scanned index
1919Drurv. W Cider Millthe 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.

Cider Mill
E. F., Cider Mill
Whiting, G. A., Cider Mill
Drurv. W Cider Mill

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 23 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

(VIII) Edwin Allen, son of John Allen (7), was born at Pomfret, Vermont, December 16, 1832, and died September Q, 1899. He was. brought up on the farm of his father, and educated at the district schools and at Royalton Academy and Thetford Academy. While attending the academy he taught school in various towns on Cape Cod. In 1852 he bought the farm on which he was born, and was assisted by his father in establishing his home. He lived on this farm of one hundred and fifty acres all his life. It is located in the northwest part of Pomfret, on what is called "Allen Hill." He made a specialty of Spanish merino sheep, and in later years raised much Jersey stock for his own dairy and for sale. His own herd numbered twenty-five or more, and was reckoned among the best in the state.

Read the chapter on Lowell City.

Named in the same survey

14 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 Baptist Church in the 1885 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading High School in the 1885 atlasHigh Schoolschool1885
The index line reading Taylor, L., Carriage Shop in the 1885 atlasTaylor, L., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1885
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1885 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading American Hotel in the 1901 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1901 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1901
The index line reading City Hall in the 1901 atlasCity Hallcity hall1901
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1901 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Woolen Mills in the 1901 atlasDarling Woolen Mills Comill1901
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1901 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1901 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1901
The index line reading New Hollis Hotel in the 1901 atlasNew Hollis Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading Preston Hotel in the 1901 atlasPreston Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading Winsor Hotel in the 1906 atlasWindsor Hotelhotel1906

Other mills 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 Middlesex 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.