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Congregational Church, Attleboro

A church in Attleboro, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1894 and 1911.

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
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index

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

22 establishments

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.

Other churches in the atlases

11

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 Attleboro, 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.