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Grammar School, Rockport

A school in Rockport, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1907 and 1917.

The line reading Broadway School in the 1907 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1907 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1907Broadway Schoolthe scanned index
1917Broadway Schoolthe scanned index
1917High 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
Broadway School
High School

Named in the 1897 county history

The history of Essex County was published 10 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

March 26, 1776, an attempt was made, to allow the Grammar School to be kept at the South School- House, their proportion of time. This, the first school-building in South Georgetown, was on the corner of Brook and Central Streets, where the brick house of Lowell G. Wilson now stands. The request does not seem to have been acted upon, the war then bursting upon the country with all its uncertainty, drove all other thoughts from their minds. In 1777 the teacher divided his services for the year, with the school at the North, that on Searl Street, the South School and the ea-^terly end of the parish, but not further down than Mr. Phinehas Dodge's house, and that each family signify, what school-house they choose.

Read the chapter on Georgetown Town.

Named in the same survey

7 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Grist Mill in the 1907 atlasBrown, G. B., Grist Millmill1907
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1907 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1907
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1907 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1907
The index line reading Episcopal Church: in the 1907 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1907
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1907 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1907
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1917 atlasBank Buildingbank1917
The index line reading Bradley School in the 1917 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1917

Other schools in the atlases

7

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.