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

Congregational Church

A church in Bristol County, Massachusetts, named in 7 atlases between 1894 and 1924.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1894 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1894 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1894Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1899Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1903Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1916Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1916Central Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1924Central Congregational 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
Central Congregational Church

Named in the 1883 county history

The history of Bristol County was published 11 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

During all this time they had continued to worship in the Congregational Church. At this date, however, the members of that society undertook to supply the pulpit with a minister of their own denomination. Accordingly, the Methodists vacated the building and took an upper room in an old house which is still standing, - the one nearest the bridge on the south side of the street. They soon collected the sum of five hundred dollars and built a house of worship, although their funds were inadequate to pay for it and a considerable debt remained upon the church. It was dedicated in 1811, Rev. Nehemiah Coye preaching the sermon on the occasion. At the time of its dedication it was a rough structure, in quite an unfinished state, being neither painted nor plastered.

Read the chapter on Acushnet Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 30 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Bristol 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 30 in Bristol County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1894 atlasBank Buildingbank1894
The index line reading Free Evangel. Church in the 1894 atlasFree Evangel. Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Gilmore, E. D., & Co., Jewelry Shop in the 1894 atlasGilmore, E. D., & Co., Jewelry Shopshop1894
The index line reading International Hotel in the 1894 atlasInternational Hotelhotel1894
The index line reading Opera House in the 1894 atlasOpera Houseopera house1894
The index line reading Publie School in the 1894 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1894
The index line reading Simmons, B. F., Jewelry Shops in the 1894 atlasSimmons, R. F., Jewelry Shopsshop1894
The index line reading Totten, I., & Oo, Jewelry Shop in the 1894 atlasTotten, T., & Co., Jewelry Shopshop1894
The index line reading Union Power Co's Shops in the 1894 atlasUnion Power Co's Shopsshop1894
The index line reading Murray Universalist Church in the 1894 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Wamsutta Hotel in the 1894 atlasWamsutta Hotelhotel1894
The index line reading Briggs, E.A, & Co., Grist Mill in the 1899 atlasBriggs, E.A, & Co., Grist Millmill1899
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1899 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Kelly, J., Marble Shop in the 1899 atlasKelly, J., Marble Shopshop1899
The index line reading Miller"s Block in the 1899 atlasMiller's Blockmill1899
The index line reading Orr, J., Bleachery and Dye Works, 10 in the 1899 atlasOrr, J., Bleachery and Dye Works, 10works1899
The index line reading Cooks Hotel in the 1903 atlasCooks Hotelhotel1903
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1903 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1903
The index line reading High School in the 1903 atlasHigh Schoolschool1903
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1903 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1903
The index line reading Park Hotel in the 1903 atlasPark Hotelhotel1903
The index line reading Unity Church in the 1903 atlasUnity Churchchurch1903
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1911 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Foundry, at Easton Furnace in the 1911 atlasFoundry, at Easton Furnacefoundry1911

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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