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Congregational Church

A church in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, named in 13 atlases between 1884 and 1914.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1884 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1884 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1884Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1889Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1895Congregational Church,&cthe scanned index
1895Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1895Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1901Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1905First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1905Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1908Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1908Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1914Congregational 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.

Congregational Church
Congregational Church,&c
First Congregational Church

Named in the 1869 county history

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

-Tound provided that a committee to be chosen and a surveyor judge it, "most accommodable." Ensign Martin and Mr. Isaac Hill were at the same time appointed a committee to provide preaching for the future. On October 29, 1761, the proprietors resolved that "Mr. Levi Post should be our gospel minister. Voted to give him 91 £ settlement and 80 £ salary and his fire wood." Mr. Post does not appear to have remained long in the town, for on April 2d, 1762, Messrs. Samuel Warren and Peter Curtis were chosen a committee to provide a house to meet in for divine M'Orship and Messrs. Peter Curtis. "William Bradlev and Nehemiah Bull, a committee to provide preaching for the future.

Read the chapter on Lanesborough Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 56 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Berkshire 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 56 in Berkshire County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Decker & Sabin, Paper Mill in the 1884 atlasDecker & Sabin, Paper Millmill1884
The index line reading Dresser, D., Grist Mill in the 1884 atlasDresser, D., Grist Millmill1884
The index line reading Estes Mill in the 1884 atlasEstes Millmill1884
The index line reading Hall Bros, Carriage Shop in the 1884 atlasHall Bros, Carriage Shopcarriage shop1884
The index line reading Housatonie Mill in the 1884 atlasHousatonic Millmill1884
The index line reading Lee Foundry & Machine Works in the 1884 atlasLee Foundry & Machine Worksfoundry1884
The index line reading Norton Hotel in the 1884 atlasNorton Hotelhotel1884
The index line reading Opera House in the 1884 atlasOpera Houseopera house1884
The index line reading Baird, P. O., Paper Mills in the 1884 atlasPaper Millmill1884
The index line reading Tanner & Faxon, Paper Mill in the 1884 atlasTanner & Faxon, Paper Millmill1884
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1884 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1884
The index line reading Pulp Mill in the 1884 atlasUpper Pulp Millmill1884
The index line reading Academy to School 6 in the 1889 atlasAcademy to School 6school1889
The index line reading Benton Bros., Greenwood Paper Mill in the 1889 atlasBenton Bros., Greenwood Paper Millmill1889
The index line reading Bostwick. G. T Flax Mill in the 1889 atlasBostwick. G. T Flax Millmill1889
The index line reading Cheshire Harbor Cotton Mills in the 1889 atlasCheshire Harbor Cotton Millsmill1889
The index line reading East Lee Hotel in the 1889 atlasEast Lee Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1889 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1889
The index line reading A. R. R. Freight Depot in the 1889 atlasFreight Depotdepot1889
The index line reading Gross, F. S., Marble Works in the 1889 atlasGross, F. S., Marble Worksworks1889
The index line reading Housatonic R. R. Depot in the 1889 atlasHousatonic R. R. Depotdepot1889
The index line reading Morgan Hotel in the 1889 atlasMorgan Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Niagara Mill in the 1889 atlasNiagara Millmill1889

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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