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Congregational Church

A church in Essex County, Massachusetts, named in 11 atlases between 1886 and 1911.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1886 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1886 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1886Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1892Old South Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1892Congregational Church, Commonthe scanned index
1892Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1896Old South Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1898Trinity Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1901Old South Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1906Tabernacle Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1906Old South Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1907First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Old South Congregational Church,_. 11the 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
Old South Congregational Church
Congregational Church, Common
Trinity Congregational Church
Tabernacle Congregational Church
First Congregational Church
Old South Congregational Church,_. 11

Named in the 1897 county history

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

At the summit of this hill and along its broad plateau the surrounding towns and cities spread out like a map before the eye, even unto the mountains of New Hampshire and old Agamenticus in Maine. There is a tradition that in the early colonial days George Washington rode through Georgetown, accompanied by his staff. On reaching the top of Spofford's Hill, he rose in his stirrups, and, sweeping with eagle glance the magnificent prospect before him, he exclaimed, "Truly, gentlemen, this is a goodlie country." Tradition also says that he once occupied a seat in the old original Congregational Church, of which Parson Chandler was the first pastor, and that because of this event the town received its present name of Georgetown when it separated from old Rowley.

Read the chapter on Georgetown Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 27 establishments shown

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. See all 27 in Essex County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Meth.Episcopal Church in the 1886 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1886
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1886 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Wingate School in the 1886 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1886
Merrimack National Bankbank1886
The index line reading Methodist Church (Groveland) in the 1886 atlasMethodist Church (Groveland)church1886
The index line reading North Church in the 1886 atlasNorth Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Stevens & Co., Woolen Mill in the 1886 atlasStevens & Co., Woolen Millmill1886
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1886 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1886 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Winter St. F. Baptist Church in the 1886 atlasWinter St. F. Baptist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Agawam Hotel in the 1892 atlasAgawam Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1892 atlasBank Buildingbank1892
The index line reading Brown, G. B., Grist Mill in the 1892 atlasBrown, G. B., Grist Millmill1892
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Elm Hotel in the 1892 atlasElm Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Farley & Daniels, Shoe Shop in the 1892 atlasFarley & Daniels, Shoe Shopshop1892
The index line reading Hardy & Cole, Planing Mill in the 1892 atlasHardy & Cole, Planingmillplaning mill1892
The index line reading Manning School in the 1892 atlasManning Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Public Schools in the 1892 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1892
The index line reading St. Joachim's Catholie Church in the 1892 atlasSt. Joachim's Catholie Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Upper Mills in the 1892 atlasUpper Millsmill1892
The index line reading Advent Church in the 1906 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1906
The index line reading City Hall in the 1906 atlasCity Hallcity hall1906
The index line reading Free Christian Church in the 1906 atlasFree Christian Church (Congregational)church1906

Other churches in the atlases

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

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.