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Woolen Mills, Webster

A mill in Webster, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1888 and 1898.

The line reading Woolen Mills in the 1888 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1888 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1888Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1893Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1898Dudley Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1898Woolen 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
Dudley Woolen Mills

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 1 year after 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

24 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 1888 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Darling, A. W. & N., Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasDarling, A. W., Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1888 atlasJournal Printingprinting1888
The index line reading Jr Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasJr Woolen Millmill1888
The index line reading Mason, J., & Sons), Cotton Mill in the 1888 atlasMason, J., & Sons), Cotton Millmill1888
The index line reading Public School in the 1888 atlasPublic Schoolschool1888
The index line reading Tourtellott Hotel in the 1888 atlasTourtellott Hotelhotel1888
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1888 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1888 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Valley Woolen Mill in the 1888 atlasValley Wollen Millmill1888
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1893 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Box SHOP in the 1893 atlasBox SHOPshop1893
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1893 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Lincoln Hotel in the 1893 atlasLincoln Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1893 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Uentral Hotel in the 1898 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading City Hotel in the 1898 atlasCity Hotelhotel1898
The index line reading Gibson, E. G., Wool and Shoddy Mill in the 1898 atlasGibson, B. G Wool and shoddy millmill1898
The index line reading High School in the 1898 atlasHigh Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Hotel De Witt in the 1898 atlasHotel De Witthotel1898
The index line reading Keegan, L., Woolen Mill in the 1898 atlasKeegan, L., Woolen Millmill1898
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Public School in the 1898 atlasPublic Schoolschool1898

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 Webster, 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.