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Methodist Episcopal Church

A church in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, named in 6 atlases between 1889 and 1899.

The line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Methodist Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1896Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1896Methodist Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1897Paul's Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1898Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1899Methodist Episcopal Churchthe 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.

Methodist Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
Paul's Episcopal Church

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 5 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

George Newcomb was master of the First Middle School from 1857 to 1859 and of the Mill School from 1859 to 1864, having previously taught in Quincy twelve years and in North Chelsea, now Revere, four years. He was born in Quincy, Nov. 8, 1814, the son of James and Lucy (Baxter) Newcomb, and prepared himself to enter college in Braintree and Derby Academies. Ill health preventing a college course, he devoted himself to teaching, at the same time doing much good work in behalf of temperance and other reforms, and was always active in the cause of religion. In 1864 he went to teach the Freedmen in Beaufort, N. C, and was appointed a superintendent of Freedmen's Schools in the South. In March, 1865, eight days after the surrender of Charleston, S.

Read the chapter on Dedham Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 46 establishments shown

The 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 46 in Norfolk County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Pond, V. S., Mill and Lumber Yard in the 1889 atlasPond, V. S., & Co., Mill and Lumber Yardmill1889
The index line reading Union Straw Works in the 1889 atlasStraw Worksworks1889
The index line reading Brunswick Hotel in the 1896 atlasBrunswick Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Dodge & Tyler, Grist Mill in the 1896 atlasDodge & Tyler, Grist Millmill1896
The index line reading Drake School in the 1896 atlasDrake Schoolschool1896
The index line reading Draper bros. Co.s Woolen Mills in the 1896 atlasDraper bros. Co.s Woolen Millsmill1896
The index line reading Eureka Silk Co's Mills in the 1896 atlasEureka Silk Co's Millsmill1896
The index line reading French & Ward, Woolen Mills, &e in the 1896 atlasFrench & Ward, Woolen Mills, &emill1896
The index line reading Gas Works and Electric Light Station in the 1896 atlasGas Works and Electric Light Stationworks1896
The index line reading Lexington Print Works in the 1896 atlasIexington Paint Worksworks1896
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1896 atlasMill Pondmill1896
The index line reading Readville Color Works in the 1896 atlasReadville Color Worksworks1896
The index line reading Tileston & Hollingsworth Co., Paper Mill, 10 in the 1896 atlasTileston & Hollingsworth Co., Paper Mill, 10mill1896
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1896 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Auburn, at Millis in the 1897 atlasAuburn, at Millismill1897
The index line reading Avery School in the 1897 atlasAvery Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Baptist Church, at Bast Dedham in the 1897 atlasBaptist Church, at Bast Dedhamchurch1897
The index line reading Congreg. Church, at Islington in the 1897 atlasCongreg. Church, at Islingtonchurch1897
The index line reading Congregational Chureh. at Millis in the 1897 atlasCongregational Chureh. at Millismill1897
The index line reading Exchange, at Millis in the 1897 atlasExchange, at Millismill1897
The index line reading Fardy, J., Carriage Shop in the 1897 atlasFardy, J., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1897
The index line reading High School in the 1897 atlasHigh Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Hotel Brigham in the 1897 atlasHotel Brighamhotel1897

Other churches in the atlases

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

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.