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Massasoit Hotel, Spencer

A hotel in Spencer, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1887 and 1901.

The line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Massasoit Hotelthe scanned index
1901Massasoit Hotelthe scanned index

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Tavern.s. - Spencer was a famous stopping-place for these coaches I'rom the days of the " three taverns " in 1788 to the supplanting of them by railroads. It was a relay station for change of horses while its taverns furnished travelers with substantial food and drink, and it was not unusual to see fifteen coaches congregated here at the noon hour, and upon extra occasions, twenty-five. The Centre was early designated as " Upper and Lower Villages," the meeting-house being the nucleus of the former, and the "three taverns" the latter. These taverns, in 1788 the only three dwellings in the lower village, were the " Jenks," which occupied the site of the Massasoit Hotel ; the " Mason House, " beneath the "big elms'' near the boot factory of J.

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Named in the same survey

20 establishments

The surveyors walked Worcester 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 Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1901 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Grove School House in the 1901 atlasGrove Schoolschool1901
The index line reading Hotel Waldo in the 1901 atlasHotel Waldohotel1901
The index line reading Lafayette Hotel in the 1901 atlasLafayette Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading North Brookfield Journal Printing in the 1901 atlasNorth Brookfield Journal Printingprinting1901
The index line reading Opera House in the 1901 atlasOpera Houseopera house1901
The index line reading Public School in the 1901 atlasPublic Schoolschool1901
The index line reading Rockwell, E. M., Woolen-mill in the 1901 atlasRoelwell, E. M. Woolen Millmill1901
The index line reading Valley Mill, Mf'g Woolen Goods in the 1901 atlasValley Mill, Mººg Woolen Goods 11mill1901

Other hotels in the atlases

16

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

Provenance

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