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Congregational Church

A church in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 21 atlases between 1887 and 1910.

The line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Calvin Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1887Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1889First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1889Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1892First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1893Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1896Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1898Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1901Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1902Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1903Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1904Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1904First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1905Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1905Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1910Congregational 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
Calvin Congregational Church
First Congregational Church

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The religious history of Fitchburg is much like that of any typical New England town, especially in Massachusetts. It begins with the time when the Congregational church was the state church, and the town maintained public worship, furnishing the church building and paying the minister's salary; but the day was approaching when the evolution of religious thought would make such a system impossible in America. The period leading to disestablishment was difficult, end naturally was marked by unpleasant feeling between the denominations, which was long in dying out, but served, perhaps, to increase the disposition to sacrifice of each body of believers, that the true faith, which it was sure it alone possessed, might be represented in the growing town.

Read the chapter on Fitchburg City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 79 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester 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 Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlasOpera Houseopera house1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading American Hotel in the 1889 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Crystal Lake Hotel in the 1889 atlasCrystal Lake Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Howe Bros., Grist Mill in the 1889 atlasHowe Bros., Grist Millmill1889
The index line reading Leicester Academy in the 1889 atlasLeicester Academyice house1889
The index line reading Pierce, S. K., & Son, Chair Factory in the 1889 atlasPierce, S. K., & Son, Chair Factorychair factory1889
The index line reading Richards Hotel in the 1889 atlasRichards Hotelhotel1889

Other churches in the atlases

15

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

Provenance

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