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Congregational Church, Lexington

A church in Lexington, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1908 and 1927.

The line reading Hancock Congregational Church in the 1908 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1908 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1908Hancock Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1927Hancock 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
Hancock Congregational Church

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published in the same year as the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

R. Worthiley, of Andover. He has been selectman of Acton, two years; School Committee superintendent, three years; Sabbath-school superintendent, fifteen years ; deacon of the Congregational Church since 1862. In politics the deacon has been uniformly a Republican. He has been a hard-working man, greatly improving his farm and lifting from himself burdens which at the beginning he had to assume.

Read the chapter on Acton Town.

Named in the same survey

5 establishments

The surveyors walked Middlesex 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 Baptist Church in the 1908 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1908
The index line reading St.Bridget's Catholic Church in the 1908 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1908
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1908 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1908
The index line reading High school in the 1908 atlasHigh Schoolschool1908
The index line reading St. Bridget's R. C. Church in the 1927 atlasSt. Bridget's R. C. Churchchurch1927

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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