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Public Schools

A school in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 8 atlases between 1891 and 1920.

The line reading Public Schools in the 1891 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1891 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1891Public Schoolsthe scanned index
1892Public Schoolthe scanned index
1896Public Schoolthe scanned index
1902Public Schoolthe scanned index
1902Public Schoolthe scanned index
1917Davis Public Schoolthe scanned index
1918Public Schoolthe scanned index
1920Public 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
Davis Public School

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 7 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Finely equipped for heavy and light teaming of all kinds, extensively operating and having an unrivalled reputation for reliability of services. The Sheldon Transfer, located at s:5 Main street, is classed among the leading firms of Western Massachusetts. This business was established forty-two years ago by the senior member of the firm, C. M. Sheldon, and has always had its office in this section. A few years ago, a son, Jesse E- Sheldon, became a member oi the firm. The Sheldon Transfer can practically move anything movable and makes a specialty of machinery, boilers and safe moving, and does all the work for many of the largest manufacturing plants of Holyoke. Eighty-five skilled workmen are employed and more careful and painstaking help would be hard to find.

Read the chapter on Holyoke City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 35 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Hampden 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 35 in Hampden County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Advent Church in the 1891 atlasAdvent Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1891 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Brooks & Woodward, Wagon Shop in the 1891 atlasBrooks & Woodvard, Wagon Shopshop1891
The index line reading Catholic Church of the Holy Name in the 1891 atlasChurch of the Holy Namechurch1891
The index line reading Francis, R. B., Machine Shop in the 1891 atlasFrancis, R. B., Machine Shopmachine shop1891
The index line reading French Catholie Church in the 1891 atlasFrench Catholie Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1891 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1891 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Nassowanno Hotel in the 1891 atlasNassowanno Hotelhotel1891
The index line reading Newton, J. D., Grist Mill in the 1891 atlasNewton, J. D., Grist Millmill1891
The index line reading Ritter, W., Brewery in the 1891 atlasRitter, W., Brewerybrewery1891
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1891 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1891
The index line reading St. Paul's Universalist Church in the 1891 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Weeks Hotel in the 1891 atlasWeeks Hotelhotel1891
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1892 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Ellis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1892 atlasEllis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Millmill1892
The index line reading Hutehinson, L., Wagon Works in the 1892 atlasHutehinson, L., Wagon Worksworks1892
The index line reading Monson Hotel in the 1892 atlasMonson Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Reynolds, R. M. & T., Woolen Mills in the 1892 atlasReynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Millsmill1892
The index line reading S. F., Woolen Mills in the 1892 atlasWoolen Millsmill1892
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1896 atlasBank Blockbank1896
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1896 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Century Hotel in the 1896 atlasCentury Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading High School in the 1896 atlasHigh Schoolschool1896

Other schools in the atlases

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

Provenance

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