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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Methodist Church

A church in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 3 atlases between 1887 and 1896.

The line reading Methodist Church 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
1887Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1891Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1896Methodist Churchthe scanned index

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 3 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

F. F. Whitconib in the Hutchins block. Blake & Casey, and John Heinritz close followers, F- P- Goodall, with his splendid wholesale and retail drug store, in the Holyoke House Ijlock, was in a class by himself, Joel Russell & Son ted tin.- way in ihe hardware business, as did Lemuel Sears, Rieli.irds & Thayer. Crafts & Frazer. M. J, Finn, James Din].\ .iiid F. 1'. Ford in grocery stores. C. A, Corser was the pioneer shoe dealer, and John Tilley the Vfl«.ran nirnilvire dealer. Holyoke then had but IWO national banks, the lladley Falls and the llolvoke National, and two savings banks, the Holyoke and Mechanics Savings banks, Samuel King conilucled his woman's shop then, as now. on High street.

Read the chapter on Holyoke City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 29 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Hampden 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 29 in Hampden County.

Other churches in the atlases

11

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

Provenance

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