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Woolen Mills, Leicester

A mill in Leicester, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1889 and 1910.

The line reading Woolen Mill, at in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Woolen Mill, atthe scanned index
1910Brick City 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
Brick City Woolen Mills
Woolen Mill, at

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published in the same year as the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Some time during the year 1848 he left the printingoffice and entered the employ of Woodburn Light & Co., to learn the machinist's business. This was much more to his taste and made the hours of his work much more regular, and the calculations of gears and screws had a fascination for him. In the year 1850 he had saved enough of his earnings to give himself a year's schooling at Nichols Academy, and in 1851 he went into the shop again, this time at the locomotive-shop of the Union Works at South Boston, which were owned then by Mr. Seth Wilmarth, afterwards chief at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

Read the chapter on Dudley Town.

Named in the same survey

17 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 Baptist Church in the 1889 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1889
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Crystal Lake Hotel in the 1889 atlasCrystal Lake Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Howe Bros., Grist Mill in the 1889 atlasHowe Bros., Grist Millmill1889
The index line reading Leicester Academy in the 1889 atlasLeicester Academyice house1889
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Richards Hotel in the 1889 atlasRichards Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Mann, G.,& Bro., Satinette Mill in the 1889 atlasSatinette Millmill1889
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1889 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Wetherbee, G. F., Grist Mill in the 1889 atlasWetherbee, G. F., Grist Millmill1889
The index line reading Box SHOP in the 1910 atlasBox SHOPshop1910
The index line reading Chapel Mills M'f'g Co.,Woolen Mill in the 1910 atlasChapel Mills Mfg Comill1910
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1910 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1910
The index line reading Union Hotel (formerly), - 5 in the 1910 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1910
The index line reading Valley Woolen Mills in the 1910 atlasValley Wollen Millmill1910
The index line reading Northboro Woolen Mills in the 1910 atlasWoolen Millsmill1910

Other mills 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 Leicester, 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.