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Woolen Mills

A mill in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named in 5 atlases between 1887 and 1902.

The line reading Cushman, S. F., Woolen Mills 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
1887Cushman, S. F., Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1889Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1892S. F., Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1896Cushman, S. F., Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1902Cushman, S. F., Woolen-millsthe 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.

Woolen Mills
Cushman, S. F., Woolen Mills
S. F., Woolen Mills
Cushman, S. F., Woolen-mills

Named in the 1884 county history

The history of Hampden County was published 3 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

28. On west side of road. House, owned by Estate of E. O. Gates. These last five places were formerly the property of Dwight W. Ellis, Gates and Nelson, Stebbins and others, and were used as homes for the help employed in the saw mill, grist mill, and woolen mills, some of which were operated here, from about 1762, until recently, using the power furnished by the brook. The road formerly -yyent over the railroad at a grade crossing, and entered the Boston Road, between the houses now owned by E. N. Lyman arid Bradway and Warren. Now the road nms under the railroad, at an underpass several rods west- of the former crossing, and enters the Boston Road.

Read the chapter on Wilbraham Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 30 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Hampden 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 30 in Hampden County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Bank Building in the 1887 atlasBank Buildingbank1887
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1887 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Ellis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Mill in the 1887 atlasEllis, D. W., & Son, Woolen Millmill1887
The index line reading Methodist Church in the 1887 atlasMethodist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Monson Hotel in the 1887 atlasMonson Hotelhotel1887
The index line reading Reynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Mills in the 1887 atlasReynold, R. M. & T., Woolen Millsmill1887
The index line reading Germania Hotel in the 1889 atlasGermania Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Japanese Paper Mill in the 1889 atlasJapanese Paper Millmill1889
The index line reading Methodist Episc. Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episc. Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Normal School,: in the 1889 atlasNormal School,:school1889
The index line reading Opera House in the 1889 atlasOpera Houseopera house1889
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1889 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Rail Road Hotel in the 1889 atlasRail Road Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Hutehinson, L., Wagon Works in the 1892 atlasHutehinson, L., Wagon Worksworks1892
The index line reading Public School in the 1892 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1892
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Bank Block in the 1896 atlasBank Blockbank1896
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1896 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1896
The index line reading Century Hotel in the 1896 atlasCentury Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading High School in the 1896 atlasHigh Schoolschool1896
The index line reading Holden & Fuller, Woolen Mills in the 1896 atlasHolden & Fuller, Woolen Millsmill1896
The index line reading Massowanno Hotel in the 1896 atlasNassowanno Hotelhotel1896
The index line reading Grist Mill 22 in the 1896 atlasNewton, J. D., Grist Millmill1896
The index line reading Seed Warehouse in the 1896 atlasSeed Warehousewarehouse1896

Other mills in the atlases

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

Provenance

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