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Massasoit Hotel

A hotel in Worcester County, 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.

Read the chapter on Worcester City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 28 establishments shown

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. See all 28 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1887
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 Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlasOpera Houseopera house1887
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 Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
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 Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1901 atlasBank Blockbank1901
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 Dufton Bros., Satinet Mills in the 1901 atlasJufton Bros., Satinet Millmill1901
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

Other hotels in the atlases

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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 Worcester 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.