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Universalist Church, Spencer

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

The line reading Universalist 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
1887Universalist Churchthe scanned index
1892Universalist Churchthe scanned index

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.

Public worship was held for several years in a hall and dwelling-houses, but gradually, chiefly on account of the depression in agriculture and of the scarcity of money, the people considered it impossible to raise funds for a church building, and the project was abandoned, and soon all interest in the matter was apparently lost. In 1838, and for two or three years previously, a number of persons had become dissatisfied in the First Church, and filed certificates of withdrawal. April 9th a few of these associated themselves, and formed the First Universalist Church of Barre, and some from the south part of the town, who had been interested in the scheme of 1820, joined them. The next year they purchased a building lot at the south

Read the chapter on Barre 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
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 Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Exchange Street Hotel in the 1887 atlasExchange Street Hotelhotel1887
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 Orthodox Church in the 1887 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1887 atlasRoman Catholic Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1887 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1887
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 Allan, G, Cotton Mill in the 1892 atlasAllan, G, Cotton Millmill1892
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1892 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Goodspeed, G. N., Machine Shop in the 1892 atlasGoodspeed, G. N., Machine Shopmachine shop1892
The index line reading Grove School in the 1892 atlasGrove Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Hotel Winchendon in the 1892 atlasHotel Winchendonhotel1892
The index line reading North Brookfield Journal Printing in the 1892 atlasNorth Brookfield Journal Printingprinting1892
The index line reading Public School in the 1892 atlasPublic Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Union Congreg. Church in the 1892 atlasUnion Congreg. Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Valley Mill, Mººg Woolen Goods 11 in the 1892 atlasValley Mill, Mººg Woolen Goods 11mill1892

Other churches in the atlases

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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.