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Methodist Episcopal Church, Franklin

A church in Franklin, Massachusetts, named in 2 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
1899Methodist Episcopal Churchthe scanned index

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.

Washington Street Methodist Episcopal Church. - The first attempt to establish a Methodist church in Brookline was in the early part of 1873. Three persons from other places saw an opening for, and the need of, a Methodist Church where people could worship in their own way in this town. They united with two others and purchased the building formerly belonging to the Harvard Congregational society, at the corner of Washington and School Streets, for the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. manner, and dedicated to public worship soon after, and the Rev. E. D. Winslow, of Newton, was appointed by the New England Conference as their pastor. Bishop Simpson preached the dedication sermon from 1 John iv. 19. A Sunday-school was connected with this church of about one hundred members.

Read the chapter on Brookline Town.

Named in the same survey

10 establishments

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.

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 Hatch, J. D., Carriage Shop in the 1899 atlasHateb, J. D., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1899
The index line reading Hayward, H. T., Satinette Mill in the 1899 atlasHayward, H. T., Satinette Millmill1899
The index line reading Heliotype Printing Co in the 1899 atlasHeliotype Printing Coprinting1899
The index line reading Opera House in the 1899 atlasOpera Houseopera house1899
The index line reading Crescent Hotel in the 1899 atlasOresceut Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Prescott Hotel in the 1899 atlasPrescott Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1899 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Public School,.* in the 1899 atlasVine Street Publie Schoolschool1899

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 Franklin, 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.