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

Washington Street School

A school in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1921 and 1949.

The line reading Washington Street School in the 1921 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1921 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1921Washington Street Schoolthe scanned index
1949Washington Street Schoolthe scanned index

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 13 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Street (still standing on the same location), one on Washington Street and one at the corner of Beech and North Streets, at Waverley. In the building on Brighton street were two schools, the higher of which, the North Grammar, was taught by Mr. Arthur 1'. Smith. The other buildings each contained a primary school. A fifth school, called the South Grammar, was at once organized in the Washington Street school-house and placed under the charge of Mr. David Mack. The reputation of both of these gentlemen as instructors testifies to the educational advantages enjoyed at even this early day in our history by the youth of the town. Arrangements were also made by which pupils already admitted to the High Schools might complete, without change of school, the course of study they had entered upon.

Read the chapter on Belmont Town.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Middlesex 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 Barry, E., & Sons, Tannery in the 1921 atlasBarry, E., & Sons, Tannerytannery1921
The index line reading Eastern Felt Co.,Felt Mill in the 1921 atlasEastern Felt Co.,Felt Millmill1921
The index line reading Rumford School in the 1921 atlasHigh Schoolschool1921

Other schools in the atlases

6

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

Provenance

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