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

Unitarian Church

A church in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 15 atlases between 1885 and 1910.

The line reading Unitarian Church in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1887Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1887Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1888Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1889Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1889Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1891Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1894Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1896Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1899Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1900Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1900Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1905Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1905Unitarian Churchthe scanned index
1910Unitarian Churchthe scanned index

On the National Register

South Unitarian Matched to this establishment on the distinguishing word unitarian.

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 4 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

My memory goes back to 1840. when Fitchburg was a provincial town of 2600 inhabitants, or to be exact, 2604. During forty years previous it had barely doubled in population, the census of 1800 showing 1390. It was a picturesque town, and an attractive place to live. Old Rollstone had not then been seriously disfigured, and the boulder remained on its brow where it was left in the glacial period ages before. The Upper Common was much the same as today, and the Unitarian church, with its granite pillars in front, was then the finest building in town. The old academy stood on the brow of "Science Hill" near the location of the Pleasant street school building.

Read the chapter on Fitchburg City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 75 establishments shown

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. See all 75 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading American Hotel in the 1885 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1885
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading St. Bernard Catholie Church in the 1887 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1887 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1887 atlasChampion Millsmill1887
The index line reading Calvin Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading High School in the 1887 atlasHigh Schoolschool1887
The index line reading Wood Works in the 1887 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1887
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1887 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Miller, C.,Furniture Fact in the 1887 atlasMiller, C.,Furniture Factmill1887
The index line reading National Hotel in the 1887 atlasNational Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Opera House in the 1887 atlasOpera Houseopera house1887
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1887 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1887 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Valley Mill in the 1887 atlasValley Millmill1887
The index line reading Collier & Butler, Woolen Mills in the 1888 atlasCollier & Butler, Woolen Millsmill1888
The index line reading Darling, A. W. & N., Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1888 atlasJournal Printingprinting1888
The index line reading Jr Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasJr Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Mason, J., & Sons), Cotton Mill in the 1888 atlasMason, J., & Sons), Cotton Millmill1888

Other churches in the atlases

15

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 Worcester 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.