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Congregational Church, North Adams

A church in North Adams, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1884 and 1908.

The line reading Congregational Church in the 1884 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1884 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1884Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1901Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1908Congregational Churchthe scanned index

Named in the 1869 county history

The history of Berkshire County was published 15 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

-Tound provided that a committee to be chosen and a surveyor judge it, "most accommodable." Ensign Martin and Mr. Isaac Hill were at the same time appointed a committee to provide preaching for the future. On October 29, 1761, the proprietors resolved that "Mr. Levi Post should be our gospel minister. Voted to give him 91 £ settlement and 80 £ salary and his fire wood." Mr. Post does not appear to have remained long in the town, for on April 2d, 1762, Messrs. Samuel Warren and Peter Curtis were chosen a committee to provide a house to meet in for divine M'Orship and Messrs. Peter Curtis. "William Bradlev and Nehemiah Bull, a committee to provide preaching for the future.

Read the chapter on Lanesborough Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 31 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Berkshire 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 31 in Berkshire County.

Other churches in the atlases

16

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

Provenance

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