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Congregational Church

A church in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 22 atlases between 1889 and 1944.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1891Congrogational Churchthe scanned index
1896First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1897Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1899Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1903Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1903Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1904Union Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1904Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1909Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1911First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1912First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1916Congregational Church, _the scanned index
1917Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1919Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1919First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1927Union Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1933Village Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1942Village Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1944Union 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
Congrogational Church
First Congregational Church
Union Congregational Church
Congregational Church, _
Village Congregational Church

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 5 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

There has been a very steady growth of the town in buildings of a more or less public character, as witness the various dormitories and other buildings in the College grounds and vicinity, the Town Hall - the generous gift of Mr. Hunnewell - school buildings erected, the different business blocks at Wellesley and the Hills, also St. Andrew's church in Wellesley, and the Unitarian and Congregational church buildings in the Hills. Different residential sections have developed very attractively, as along Dover and Grove Streets in Wellesley, and Abbott Road, Belvedere, and Cliff Road, Wellesley Hills, and clusters of humbler homes on no less attractive sites, as on River Ridge, Newton Lower Falls and Garfield Farm, near the Boston and Worcester car station.

Read the chapter on Wellesley Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 79 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Norfolk 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 79 in Norfolk County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Pond, V. S., Mill and Lumber Yard in the 1889 atlasPond, V. S., & Co., Mill and Lumber Yardmill1889
The index line reading Union Straw Works in the 1889 atlasStraw Worksworks1889
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1891 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Canton Journal Printing in the 1891 atlasCanton Journal Printingprinting1891
The index line reading Draper Bros. Co.s Woolen Mill in the 1891 atlasDraper bros. Co.s Woolen Millsmill1891
The index line reading Eureka Silk Co's Mills in the 1891 atlasEureka Silk Co's Millsmill1891
The index line reading First Congreg. Church in the 1891 atlasFirst Congreg. Churchchurch1891
The index line reading High School in the 1891 atlasHigh Schoolschool1891
The index line reading Iexington Paint Works in the 1891 atlasIexington Paint Worksworks1891
The index line reading Crane Public School in the 1891 atlasPublic Schoolschool1891
The index line reading St. John's Catholic Church in the 1891 atlasSt. John's Catholic Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Brunswick Hotel in the 1896 atlasBrunswick Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Dodge & Tyler, Grist Mill in the 1896 atlasDodge & Tyler, Grist Millmill1896
The index line reading Drake School in the 1896 atlasDrake Schoolschool1896
The index line reading French & Ward, Woolen Mills, &e in the 1896 atlasFrench & Ward, Woolen Mills, &emill1896
The index line reading Gas Works and Electric Light Station in the 1896 atlasGas Works and Electric Light Stationworks1896
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1896 atlasMill Pondmill1896
The index line reading Readville Color Works in the 1896 atlasReadville Color Worksworks1896
The index line reading Tileston & Hollingsworth Co., Paper Mill, 10 in the 1896 atlasTileston & Hollingsworth Co., Paper Mill, 10mill1896
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1896 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Auburn, at Millis in the 1897 atlasAuburn, at Millismill1897
The index line reading Avery School in the 1897 atlasAvery Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Baptist Church, at Bast Dedham in the 1897 atlasBaptist Church, at Bast Dedhamchurch1897

Other churches in the atlases

12

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

Provenance

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