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Roman Catholic Church, Spencer

A church in Spencer, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1887 and 1892.

The line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Catholic Churchthe scanned index
1892Freneh Catholic Churchthe 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.

Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Church
Freneh Catholic Church

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 2 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Roman Catholic Church at Stoneville began as a mission in 1870. It is now under the pastoral supervision of Father Boylen, who lives in Oxford. They have a neat sanctuary on the hill, with a fine view of the Holy Cross College in Worcester, distant less than two miles.

Read the chapter on Auburn Town.

Named in the same survey

20 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.

Other churches in the atlases

28

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 Spencer, 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.