Methodist Church
A church in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 52 atlases between 1885 and 1942.
Where it appears
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.
| Methodist Church |
| Church (Stone,) |
| Episcopal Church |
| High Episcopal Church |
| Panl's Episcopal Church |
| Unitarian Church |
| Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Catholie Church |
| Roman Catholie Church |
| South Church |
| St. Marv's Catholie Church |
| Trinity Episcopal Church |
| Emanuel's Church |
| Baptist Church |
| Catholic Church |
| Orthodox Church |
| Church of the Unity (Unitarian) |
| First Baptist Church |
| Baptist Church, -_ |
| Edward's Catholic Church |
| Episcopal Church, -_ |
| John's Roman Catholic Church |
| St. Andrew's Episcopal Church |
| South Church (Cong"I), at S. Weym |
| First Baptist Church, 8 |
| Baptist Church, &c |
Named in the 1884 county history
The history of Norfolk County was published 1 year before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.
For the next year the pulpit was supplied by different ministers, with the assistance of Mr. I labbell in the Sunday School, and in September, 1 896, the Rev. Julian K. Smyth, the pastor of the Roxbury snciety. was asked to take ministerial charge of the Brookline society of the New Church, with a service in the afternoon in addition to his duties at Roxbury. With the consent of the Roxbury society, Mr. Smyth accepted, and began his ministry in October, 1896. During the winter of 1S97-S, the Rev. Mr. Warren took charge of the Sunday School. In the .summer of 1898, Mr. Smyth accepted a call from tin church in New his church, held Sunday evening services in the town hall.
Named in the same survey
24 of 63 establishments shownThe surveyors walked Norfolk 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 63 in Norfolk County.
| Index line | Establishment | Trade | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Brunswick Hotel | hotel | 1901 |
![]() | French & Ward, Woolen Mills, &e | mill | 1901 |
![]() | Iexington Paint Works | works | 1901 |
![]() | Mill Pond | mill | 1901 |
![]() | St. John's Catholic Church | church | 1901 |
![]() | Auburn, at Millis | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Baptist Church | church | 1903 |
![]() | Baptist Church, at West Medway | church | 1903 |
![]() | Boston Ice Co | ice house | 1903 |
![]() | Cary ville Mills | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Congreg. Church, at Islington | church | 1903 |
![]() | Congregational Church | church | 1903 |
![]() | Congregational Chureh. at Millis | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Everett School | school | 1903 |
![]() | Fardy, J., Carriage Shop | carriage shop | 1903 |
![]() | Hotel Foxboro | hotel | 1903 |
![]() | Lacroix, C., Bottling-works | works | 1903 |
![]() | Lavender, at Millis | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Main, at Millis | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Norfolk Hotel | hotel | 1903 |
![]() | Roby, J. W., Carriage Shop | carriage shop | 1903 |
![]() | Summer School | school | 1903 |
![]() | Taft, Mrdoek & Co., Woolen Mill | mill | 1903 |
![]() | Vine Street Publie School | school | 1903 |
Other churches in the atlases
12Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Norfolk County, with the years each one appears.
- Baptist Church1891 to 1903
- Baptist Church, at Bast Dedham1892 to 1897
- Baptist Church, at West Medway1892 to 1903
- Congreg. Church, at Islington1897 to 1903
- Congregational Church1889 to 1944
- First Congreg. Church1891 to 1906
- Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church1884 to 1884
- Methodist Episcopal Church1889 to 1899
- Orthodox Church1892 to 1898
- St. John's Catholic Church1891 to 1903
- Unitarian Church1892 to 1900
- Universalist Church1899 to 1919
Provenance
Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Norfolk 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.























