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Grist Mill, Belchertown

A mill in Belchertown, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1895 and 1910.

The line reading Grist Mill in the 1895 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1895 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1895Grist Millthe scanned index
1910Dyer, E. H., Grist Millthe 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.

Grist Mill
Dyer, E. H., Grist Mill

Named in the 1905 county history

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

The Lord will have us lie in the dust before him. It is the Lord and blessed be his holy name. We came to a lamentable and woeful sight: the town in flames, not a house nor barn standing except old Goodman Branch's, till we came to my house, and then Mr. Glover's, John Hitchcock's, and Goodman Stewart's burnt down with barns, com and all they had. A few standing about the meeting house, and then from Merrick downwards all burnt except two garrison houses at the lower end of the town; my grist mill and corn mill burnt down, with some other houses and bams I had let out to tenants. All Mr. Glover's library burnt with all his com, so that he hath none to live on, as well as myself and many more.

Read the chapter on Hadley Town.

Named in the same survey

7 establishments

The surveyors walked Hampshire 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 Catholic Church in the 1895 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1895
The index line reading Congreg. Church in the 1895 atlasCongreg. Churchchurch1895
The index line reading King Silk Mill in the 1895 atlasKing Silk Millmill1895
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1895 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1895
The index line reading Repair Shop & Store R'm in the 1895 atlasRepair Shop & Store R'mshop1895
The index line reading Phillip's Episcopal Church in the 1910 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1910
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1910 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1910

Other mill in the atlases

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

Provenance

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