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Waters Governor Works

A works in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1897.

The line reading Waters Governor Works in the 1892 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1892Waters Governor Worksthe scanned index
1897Water's Governor Worksthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Waters Governor Works
Water's Governor Works

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Middlesex County was published 16 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Waters Governor Works, established by Mr. Charles Waters for the purpose of manufacturing steam-engine governors on a patent issued to Mr. Waters January 3, 1871, were located in Everett, about eight years ago in a building formerly owned by Hervey Waters and designed by him for a scythe factory. Mr. Charles Waters died in 1880, and Mr. Edward Dewey purchased the business and on April 27, 1882, became owner of the factory at Everett, where he shortly after commenced manufacturing operations, which were continued by himself and Mr. R. B. Lincoln, under the firm-name of Edward Dewey & Co., until the death of Mr. Dewey, April 9, 1890. Since that time the business has been carried on by Mr. Lincoln, the surviving partner.

Read the chapter on Everett City.

Named in the same survey

22 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 Albion Hotel in the 1892 atlasAlbion Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1892 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1892 atlasCity Water Worksworks1892
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1892 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Fales, A., & Sons, Saw Mill in the 1892 atlasFales, A., & Sons, Saw Millsaw mill1892
The index line reading School (Myrtle St.) in the 1892 atlasHigh Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Lincoln School in the 1892 atlasLincoln Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Old Colony Hotel in the 1892 atlasOld Colony Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1892 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1892
The index line reading South Framingham Hotel in the 1892 atlasSouth Framingham Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1892 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading City Hall in the 1897 atlasCity Hallcity hall1897
The index line reading Globe Hotel in the 1897 atlasGlobe Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1897 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Mill Pond in the 1897 atlasMill Pondmill1897
The index line reading Oxles, A. D., Cabinet Shop in the 1897 atlasOxles, A. D., Cabinet Shopshop1897
The index line reading Pike, N. S., Carriage Shop in the 1897 atlasPike, N. S., Carriage Shopcarriage shop1897
The index line reading Rolfe's Hotel in the 1897 atlasRolfe's Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Christian Union Church in the 1897 atlasUnion Churchchurch1897

Other works in the atlases

2

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.