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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Post Office

A ice house in Essex County, Massachusetts, named once, in the 1940 atlas.

The line reading Post Office in the 1940 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1940 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1940Post Officethe scanned index

On the National Register

Old Post Office Building Matched to this establishment on the distinguishing word office, post.

Named in the 1897 county history

The history of Essex County was published 43 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Another interesting fact in connection with the Saugus postal administration is that when the aviation park was in its heyday of threatened success at the Old Saugus Race Track, mail for two or three days was sent by flying machine to the Lynn boundary, where it was dropped to waiting messengers, and by them carried to the Lynn Post Office from a point not far from the foot of Commercial Street, West Lynn, and thence dispatched to the addresses, wherever they might be. Such a letter was dispatched to the late Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., at the time United States Ambassador at St. Petersburg (now Petrograd), Russia, who courteously acknowledged its receipt, with complimentary references to the unique manner in which it had been dispatched from Saugus.

Read the chapter on Saugus Town.

Named in the county's atlases

24 of 46 establishments shown

No other establishment was recorded in this atlas that year. These are the ones the surveyors read elsewhere in Essex County, each with the line it was read from. See all 46 in Essex County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1886 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Meth.Episcopal Church in the 1886 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1886
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1886 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Wingate School in the 1886 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1886
Merrimack National Bankbank1886
The index line reading Methodist Church (Groveland) in the 1886 atlasMethodist Church (Groveland)church1886
The index line reading North Church in the 1886 atlasNorth Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Stevens & Co., Woolen Mill in the 1886 atlasStevens & Co., Woolen Millmill1886
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1886 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1886 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Winter St. F. Baptist Church in the 1886 atlasWinter St. F. Baptist Churchchurch1886
The index line reading Advent Church in the 1887 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Agawam Hotel in the 1887 atlasAgawam Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Eastern International Hotel, 4 in the 1887 atlasEastern International Hotel, 4hotel1887
The index line reading Farley & Daniels, Shoe Shop, 3 in the 1887 atlasFarley & Daniels, Shoe Shopshop1887
The index line reading Patrick's Catholic Church in the 1888 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1888
The index line reading City Hall in the 1888 atlasCity Hallcity hall1888
The index line reading Haverhill St M.E. Church in the 1888 atlasHaverhill St M.E. Churchchurch1888
The index line reading United Congreg. Church in the 1888 atlasUnited Congreg. Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Webster Hotel in the 1888 atlasWebster Hotelhotel1888
The index line reading Public School in the 1891 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1891
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1892 atlasBank Buildingbank1892
The index line reading Brown, G. B., Grist Mill in the 1892 atlasBrown, G. B., Grist Millmill1892
The index line reading Elm Hotel in the 1892 atlasElm Hotelhotel1892

Other ice house in the atlases

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

Provenance

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