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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Town Offices

A ice house in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1912 and 1918.

The line reading Town Offices in the 1912 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1912 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1912Town Officesthe scanned index
1918Town Officesthe scanned index

Named in the 1898 county history

The history of Hampshire County was published 14 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Freemen. - By the early laws of Massachusetts, none but church-members could be freemen; and none but freemen could hold offices or vote for rulers. These regulations were modified in 1647 ^"'^ 1658, and some non-freemen were allowed to vote in town affairs generally, and might hold town offices; and in 1664, some who were not church-members could be freemen. In those days, town offices were burdensome and were avoided, and many members of churches, in order to exempt themselves from public service, would not be made freemen, and in 1647, ^ was made compelling such men to serve, if chosen, or pay a fine not exceeding 20 shillings.

Read the chapter on Hadley Town.

Named in the same survey

8 establishments

The surveyors walked Hampshire 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 All Saints' Roman Catholie Church in the 1912 atlasAll Saints' Roman Catholie Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1912 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Roman Catholic Church._ in the 1912 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Trinity Episcopal Church in the 1912 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1912
The index line reading High School, __ in the 1912 atlasHigh Schoolschool1912
The index line reading National Bank Building in the 1912 atlasNational Bank Buildingbank1912
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1912 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1912
The index line reading Post Office in the 1918 atlasPost Officeice house1918

Other ice houses in the atlases

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

Provenance

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