Washington Street School, Ayer

Name: Washington Street School
Address: Ayer, MA, US

A school in Ayer, 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

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1921	Washington Street School	the scanned index
1949	Washington Street School	the scanned index

Named in the 1890 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 31 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Barry, E., & Sons, Tannery	tannery	1921
High School	school	1921
High School	school	1921

Other schools in the atlases

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 Ayer, 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.