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Public Schools

A school in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1889 and 1911.

The line reading Public Schools in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Public Schoolsthe scanned index
1895Public Schoolthe scanned index
1911Public Schoolthe scanned index
1911Publie Schoolthe 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 Schools
Public School
Publie School

Named in the 1869 county history

The history of Berkshire County was published 20 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

A petition to the General Court was signed in 1742 by 7() inhabitants of Framingham for a grant of wilderness land up m the Housatonic river just north of an Indian town. This petition was granted January S, 1713, ,and the petitioners were directed to sttrvey six square miles, have it divided into 79 loits, one for each petitioner, one for the first settled minister, one for the support of the ministry and one for the support of public schools. This grant Avas conditional on tbere being witliin three years at least 60 families settled with a liDuse on eaf;h I<>1 of at least 18 feet square, and a portion of the land fenced aivJ.

Read the chapter on Lanesborough Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 34 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Berkshire 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. See all 34 in Berkshire County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Academy to School 6 in the 1889 atlasAcademy to School 6school1889
The index line reading Benton Bros., Greenwood Paper Mill in the 1889 atlasBenton Bros., Greenwood Paper Millmill1889
The index line reading Bostwick. G. T Flax Mill in the 1889 atlasBostwick. G. T Flax Millmill1889
The index line reading Cheshire Harbor Cotton Mills in the 1889 atlasCheshire Harbor Cotton Millsmill1889
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Decker & Sabin, Paper Mill in the 1889 atlasDecker & Sabin, Paper Millmill1889
The index line reading Dresser, D., Grist Mill in the 1889 atlasDresser, D., Grist Millmill1889
The index line reading East Lee Hotel in the 1889 atlasEast Lee Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1889 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1889
The index line reading A. R. R. Freight Depot in the 1889 atlasFreight Depotdepot1889
The index line reading Gross, F. S., Marble Works in the 1889 atlasGross, F. S., Marble Worksworks1889
The index line reading Housatonic Mill in the 1889 atlasHousatonic Millmill1889
The index line reading Housatonic R. R. Depot in the 1889 atlasHousatonic R. R. Depotdepot1889
The index line reading Lee Foundry & Machine Works in the 1889 atlasLee Foundry & Machine Worksfoundry1889
The index line reading Morgan Hotel in the 1889 atlasMorgan Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Niagara Mill in the 1889 atlasNiagara Millmill1889
The index line reading Norton Hotel in the 1889 atlasNorton Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Opera House in the 1889 atlasOpera Houseopera house1889
The index line reading Phillips, B. F., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1889 atlasPhillips, B. F., & Son, Woolen Millmill1889
The index line reading Ruel, I., Carriage Shop in the 1889 atlasRuel, I., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1889
The index line reading Simader's Carriage Shop in the 1889 atlasSimader's Carriage Shopcarriage shop1889
The index line reading Smith Paper Co's Columbia Mill in the 1889 atlasSmith Paper Co's Columbia Millmill1889
The index line reading St.Mary's Catholic Chureh &School in the 1889 atlasSt.Mary's Catholic Chureh &Schoolschool1889

Other schools in the atlases

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

Provenance

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