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Mill Pond, Braintree

A mill in Braintree, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1896 and 1901.

The line reading Mill Pond in the 1896 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1896 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1896Mill Pondthe scanned index
1901Mill Pond. (the 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.

Mill Pond
Mill Pond. (

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Norfolk County was published 12 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Anticipating a few years, it appears that in 1685 the grants formerly made to Crossman were conferred upon John Whiting upon similar terms. He was the son of Nathaniel, who had a corn-mill on Mother Brook, in Dedham, and who drew lot number two in the six-hundred acres dividend " not far from the place intended to build a mill at." He did not But he must have been the owner of Crossman's rights in the mill, as his widow, Hannah Whiting, conveyed them by her deed to this son John, with other property, describing it as coming to her from her deceased husband, Nathaniel. This deed was dated Noy. 9, 1688, in the fourth year of King James II. John married Dec. 24, 1688, and lived upon the land granted to Crossman, near the outlet of the Great, or Mill Pond.

Read the chapter on Wrentham Town.

Named in the same survey

12 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 Brunswick Hotel in the 1896 atlasBrunswick Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1896 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1896
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 Lexington Print Works in the 1896 atlasIexington Paint Worksworks1896
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 Church (Stone,) in the 1901 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1901

Other mills 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 Braintree, 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.