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Post Office, Adams

A ice house in Adams, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1914 and 1950.

The line reading Post Office in the 1914 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1914 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1914Post Officethe scanned index
1950Post Officethe scanned index

Named in the 1869 county history

The history of Berkshire County was published 45 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The old countr}- store in the upper village, and close to Baker's tavern was first kept by a man named Durant, and then by the father of the Hon. Marshall Wilcox of Pittsfield. The post office was kept for many years in the tavern of Ezra Hall. The main country sitorc in the lower village was kept by Capt. Timothy Whitney and his son Kichard, who was the first register of deeds before that office was removed from the present town library building to Adams. Geo. Tresby kept a country store just above the hotel, and Sloan Powell a little store in his house ion the present site of the Methodist church, Avhich was fronted with two gigantic poplar trees.

Read the chapter on Lanesborough Town.

Named in the same survey

10 establishments

The surveyors walked Berkshire 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 Allen Iron Works in the 1914 atlasAllen Iron Worksworks1914
The index line reading Barrett Hotel in the 1914 atlasBarrett Hotelhotel1914
The index line reading Cheshire Harbor Cotton Mills in the 1914 atlasCheshire Harbor Cotton Millsmill1914
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1914 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1914
Cotton Warp Millmill1914
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1914 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1914
The index line reading R. R. Freight Depot in the 1914 atlasFreight Depotdepot1914
The index line reading Howiland Avenue School in the 1914 atlasHowiland Avenue Schoolschool1914
The index line reading Police Station in the 1914 atlasPolice Stationice house1914
The index line reading Thomas Rom. Cath. Church in the 1914 atlasThomas Rom.Cath.Churchchurch1914

Other ice house in the atlases

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

Provenance

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