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Public School, Webster

A school in Webster, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1888 and 1898.

The line reading Public School in the 1888 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1888 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1888Public Schoolthe scanned index
1898Public Schoolthe scanned index

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 1 year after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In most of our towns, at their beginning, and till the meeting-house was finished, and the minister ordained, and the leading highways laid out, no public school was established and supported by a tax. There were usually some men and some women, with sufficient education to teach the rudiments of reading, spelling and arithmetic, who would receive scholars at their homes, and charge 2d. to 6d. per week for instruction. The unfinished room was used by the Dames in summer, and the capacious kitchen, well warmed, was used by the Masters in winter.

Read the chapter on Brookfield Town.

Named in the same survey

22 establishments

The surveyors walked Worcester 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 Baptist Church in the 1888 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Darling, A. W. & N., Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1888 atlasJournal Printingprinting1888
The index line reading Jr Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasJr Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Mason, J., & Sons), Cotton Mill in the 1888 atlasMason, J., & Sons), Cotton Millmill1888
The index line reading Tourtellott Hotel in the 1888 atlasTourtellott Hotelhotel1888
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1888 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1888 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Valley Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasValley Wollen Millmill1888
The index line reading Woolen Mills in the 1888 atlasWoolen Millsmill1888
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1898 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Hyde, A., Box Shop in the 1898 atlasBox SHOPshop1898
The index line reading Uentral Hotel in the 1898 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading City Hotel in the 1898 atlasCity Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading Gibson, E. G., Wool and Shoddy Mill in the 1898 atlasGibson, B. G Wool and shoddy millmill1898
The index line reading High School in the 1898 atlasHigh Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Hotel De Witt in the 1898 atlasHotel De Witthotel1898
The index line reading Keegan, L., Woolen Mill in the 1898 atlasKeegan, L., Woolen Millmill1898
The index line reading Lincoln Hotel in the 1898 atlasLincoln Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Public School in the 1898 atlasPublic Schoolschool1898

Other schools in the atlases

6

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

Provenance

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