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Public School, Westboro

A school in Westboro, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1894 and 1899.

The line reading Public Schools in the 1894 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1894 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1894Public Schoolsthe scanned index
1899Public Schoolsthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Public School
Public Schools

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 5 years before 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

8 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 Advent Church, at Fiskdale, 10 in the 1894 atlasAdvent Church, at Fiskdale, 10church1894
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1894 atlasJournal Printingprinting1894
Lancaster Mills Store Housemill1894
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1894 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Notre Dame Church & Convent in the 1894 atlasNotre Dame Church & Conventchurch1894
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1894 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Biverlin Steel Works in the 1899 atlasBiverlin Steel Worksworks1899
The index line reading Mason, J.,&Sons, Cotton Mill, 4 in the 1899 atlasMason, J., & Sons), Cotton Millmill1899

Other schools in the atlases

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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 Westboro, 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.