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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 Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1909 and 1953.

The line reading Post Office in the 1909 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1909 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1909Post Officethe scanned index
1912Post Officethe scanned index
1912Post Officethe scanned index
1953Post Officethe scanned index

On the National Register

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

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 1 year 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

16 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Allen Chair Co in the 1909 atlasAllen Chair Cochair factory1909
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1909 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1909
The index line reading Catholie Church in the 1909 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1909
The index line reading St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in the 1909 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1909
The index line reading Lincoln School in the 1909 atlasHigh Schoolschool1909
The index line reading Rolfes Hotel in the 1909 atlasRolfe's Hotelhotel1909
The index line reading St. Joseph's Catholic School and Hall in the 1909 atlasSt. Joseph's Catholic School and Hallschool1909
The index line reading Union Church in the 1909 atlasUnion Churchchurch1909
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1909 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1909
The index line reading West Concord School in the 1909 atlasWest Concord Schoolschool1909
The index line reading Ashland Hotel in the 1912 atlasAshland Hotelhotel1912
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1912 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1912
The index line reading First National Bank Building in the 1912 atlasFirst National Bank Buildingbank1912
The index line reading Globe Hotel in the 1912 atlasGlobe Hotelhotel1912
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1912 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Opera House in the 1912 atlasOpera Houseopera house1912

Other ice houses in the atlases

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

Provenance

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