High School, Ayer

Name: High School
Address: Ayer, MA, US

A school in Ayer, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1921 and 1949.

The line reading East Main Street School in the 1921 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1921 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1921	East Main Street School	the scanned index
1949	East Main Street School	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.

High School

East Main Street School

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 13 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

NASON, Elias, Rev., son of Levi and Sarah (Newton,) b. in Wrentham, 1811, April 21. He is descended from Willoughby Nason, of Boston, 1691, through Thomas, of Walpole, whose son. Thomas, was father of Levi. Some of Mr. Nason's early years were spent at the celebrated Frankland place, of which he has -written a history. After five years in a paper mill at Framingham. he fitted for college, and grad. B. U., 1835. Edited Augusta Courier, and taught Academy at Waynesboro, Georgia, until 1840. Principal of a Ladies' Institute, Newburyport. Mass., four years ; then Master of the English High School and of the Brown High school thei'e. Principal. Milford High School, 1849-52. Ordained. Natick, 1852, May 5, pastor of the Congregational church; dismissed. 18.58, Nov. 1.

Read the chapter on Billerica Town.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Middlesex 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
Barry, E., & Sons, Tannery	tannery	1921
High School	school	1921
Washington Street School	school	1921

Other schools in the atlases

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

Provenance

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