Public Schools, Attleboro
A school in Attleboro, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1894 and 1899.
Where it appears
| Atlas | Read as | Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| 1894 | Publie School | the scanned index |
| 1899 | Public Schools | the 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 |
| Publie School |
Named in the 1883 county history
The history of Bristol County was published 11 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.
Job S. Gidley, in an historical survey of the schools here, has concluded that houses for public schools were not built until after the town was redistricted in 1816, and that the first schoolhouse was built at the Seth Davis Corner. In 1827 the town elected its first board of school committee, previous to which the schools had been in charge of a prudential committee, and in 1866 the school district system was abolished.
Named in the same survey
16 establishmentsThe surveyors walked Bristol 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 line | Establishment | Trade | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bank Building | bank | 1894 |
![]() | Congregational Church | church | 1894 |
![]() | Free Evangel. Church | church | 1894 |
![]() | Gilmore, E. D., & Co., Jewelry Shop | shop | 1894 |
![]() | International Hotel | hotel | 1894 |
![]() | Opera House | opera house | 1894 |
![]() | Simmons, R. F., Jewelry Shops | shop | 1894 |
![]() | Totten, T., & Co., Jewelry Shop | shop | 1894 |
![]() | Union Power Co's Shops | shop | 1894 |
![]() | Universalist Church | church | 1894 |
![]() | Universalist Church | church | 1894 |
![]() | Wamsutta Hotel | hotel | 1894 |
![]() | Central Hotel | hotel | 1899 |
![]() | Kelly, J., Marble Shop | shop | 1899 |
![]() | Miller's Block | mill | 1899 |
![]() | Orr, J., Bleachery and Dye Works, 10 | works | 1899 |
Other schools in the atlases
2Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Bristol County, with the years each one appears.
Provenance
Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Attleboro, 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.














