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Grammar School

A school in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1912 and 1933.

The line reading Grammar School in the 1912 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1912 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1912Grammar Schoolthe scanned index
1916Grammar Schoolthe scanned index
1919Hunnewell Grammar Schoolthe scanned index
1933Grammar Schoolthe 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.

Grammar School
Hunnewell Grammar School

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 28 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The whole number of pupils in attendance at these eight schools was two hundred and forty during the year 1885 ; and these two hundred and forty were fairly well graded for the first time in the history of our schools. Rev. Joseph Osgood, chairman of the committee, had been trying to bring this to pass during a half-century of service in connection with the schools, but for a hundred and fifty years, scholars had been allowed to enter wherever a guess at their ability * might assign them. They had hopped over classes or had plodded through them according to no fixed standard. Now in 1885 a four years' course was required of primary pupils, three years for the grammar school course, and four years for the high school.

Read the chapter on Cohasset Town.

Named in the same survey

20 establishments

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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1912 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Drake School in the 1912 atlasDrake Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Kimbell High School in the 1912 atlasHigh Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Joseph Peabody Grammar School in the 1912 atlasJoseph Peabody Grammar Schoolschool1912
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1912 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Police Station in the 1912 atlasPolice Stationice house1912
The index line reading Post Office in the 1912 atlasPost Officeice house1912
The index line reading Boston Ice Co in the 1916 atlasBoston Ice Coice house1916
The index line reading Hayward, H. T., Satinette Mill in the 1919 atlasHayward, H. T., Satinette Millmill1919
The index line reading Stony Brook Mill in the 1919 atlasStony Brook Millmill1919
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1919 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1919
The index line reading Fabyan Woolen Co., Mill in the 1933 atlasFabyan Woolen Co., Mill No. 2mill1933
The index line reading High Street School in the 1933 atlasHigh Street Schoolschool1933
The index line reading Holden, A. B., Box Factory and Ice House in the 1933 atlasHolden, A. B., Box Factory and Ice Houseice house1933
The index line reading Irving, at Millis in the 1933 atlasIrving, at Millismill1933
The index line reading Medway Depot in the 1933 atlasMedway Depotdepot1933
The index line reading Parnell, at Millis in the 1933 atlasParnell, at Millismill1933
The index line reading Plainville School in the 1933 atlasPlainville Schoolschool1933
The index line reading Union, at Millis in the 1933 atlasUnion, at Millismill1933
The index line reading Water, at Millis in the 1933 atlasWater, at Millismill1933

Other schools in the atlases

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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.