Episcopal Church, Rockport

Name: Episcopal Church
Address: Rockport, MA, US

A church in Rockport, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1897 and 1907.

The line reading Episcopal Church in the 1897 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1897 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1897	Episcopal Church	the scanned index
1907	Episcopal Church:	the 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.

Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church:

Named in the 1897 county history

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

In 1833, or thereabout, there was an Episcopal Church formed in Methuen. It seems to have had a short existence as an organized body, and little can be learned about it, except that it held its meetings in " Wilson's Hall." In 1878 another Episcopal Church was organized under the name of St. Thomas'

Read the chapter on Methuen City.

Named in the same survey

8 establishments

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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Agawam Hotel	hotel	1897
Brown, G. B., Grist Mill	mill	1897
Farley & Daniels, Shoe Shop	shop	1897
St. Joachim's Catholie Church	church	1897
Universalist Church	church	1897
Catholic Church	church	1907
Episcopal Church	church	1907
Grammar School	school	1907

Other churches in the atlases

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 Rockport, 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.