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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 Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1911 and 1933.

The line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1911 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1911Post Officethe scanned index
1933Post Officethe scanned index

On the National Register

US Post Office--Holyoke Main Matched to this establishment on the distinguishing word office, post.

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 27 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The well-stocked, largely patronized and always reliable store, known as the L. J. Laporte Drug Company, 660 High street, was established in 1889. The sudden death of .Mr. Laporte last August, has thrown the responsibilities on his son, H. J. Laporte, who has proven himself a proficient manager. This pharmacy meets all requirements of the public and caters especially to a high class family trade. Pure drugs and chemicals of varied description are kept, the best of sick room supplies and time tested remedies, toilet articles and preparations of highest quality, rubber goods, perfumes, fine cigars, chocolates, etc. A sanitary soda fountain is operated. A specialty is made of filling physicians' prescriptions with the utmost care.

Read the chapter on Holyoke City.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Hampden 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 1911 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church, 4 in the 1911 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Grammar School in the 1911 atlasGrammar Schoolschool1911
The index line reading High School in the 1911 atlasHigh Schoolschool1911
The index line reading Riclketts & Shaw, Woolen Mill in the 1911 atlasRiclketts & Shaw, Woolen Millmill1911
The index line reading Graded School in the 1933 atlasGraded Schoolschool1933

Provenance

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