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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

City Hall

A city hall in Essex County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1888 and 1906.

The line reading City Hall in the 1888 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1888 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1888City Hallthe scanned index
1906City Hallthe scanned index

Named in the 1897 county history

The history of Essex County was published 9 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Thomas F. Porter completed his education in the Swampscott schools, which he attended until about thirteen years old. When quite young he began his mercantile career as a clerk in a dry-goods store of Swampscott, and was afterward employed by various shoe firms in Lynn for a few years. Going then to Boston, he was engaged as a clerk in the stores of C. F. Hovey & Co. and Charles C. Holbrook, remaining with the latter firm until the big fire of November, 1S72. Returning to Lynn after this, he was connected with the firm of Porter & Taylor, grocers, and continued working for them until 1874, when he was admitted into partnership, the name being changed to Porter, Taylor & Co.

Read the chapter on Essex Town.

Named in the same survey

14 establishments

The surveyors walked Essex 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 Patrick's Catholic Church in the 1888 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Free-will Baptist Church in the 1888 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Haverhill St M.E. Church in the 1888 atlasHaverhill St M.E. Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1888 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1888
The index line reading United Congreg. Church in the 1888 atlasUnited Congreg. Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1888 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Webster Hotel in the 1888 atlasWebster Hotelhotel1888
The index line reading Advent Church in the 1906 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1906
The index line reading Tabernacle Congregational Church in the 1906 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1906
The index line reading Grace Episcopal Church in the 1906 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1906
The index line reading Free Christian Church in the 1906 atlasFree Christian Church (Congregational)church1906
The index line reading Dove John, School in the 1906 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1906
The index line reading Hardy & Cole, Planing Mill in the 1906 atlasHardy & Cole, Planingmillplaning mill1906
The index line reading Wesley Methodist Epise.Church in the 1906 atlasWesley Methodist Epise.Churchchurch1906

Provenance

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