Post Office, East Pepperell

Name: Post Office
Address: East Pepperell, MA, US

A ice house in East Pepperell, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1912 and 1953.

The line reading Post Office in the 1912 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1912 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1912	Post Office	the scanned index
1953	Post Office	the scanned index

Named in the 1890 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 22 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

" A Post Office was established in West Cambridge a year or two after its incorporation. Its population then amounted to only about 900. Postage was so abominably high, that but few letters were sent through, the mails. The ofiice of Postmaster was first offered to Col. Thomas Russell, and the usual commission and bond sent on from Washington. But the business and compensation were so trifling, he would not be bothered with it. In fact more letters were stuck up on the post on his store-counter, by aud for private persons, than sent through the mails. He recommended Capt. William S. Brooks, who was appointed, and thus became first Postmaster of the town.* Capt.

Read the chapter on Arlington Town.

Named in the same survey

4 establishments

The surveyors walked Middlesex 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Catholic Church	church	1912
Globe Hotel	hotel	1912
High School	school	1912
Opera House	opera house	1912

Provenance

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