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Woolen Mills

A mill in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 10 atlases between 1888 and 1910.

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
1889Woolen Mill, atthe scanned index
1893Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1898Dudley Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1898Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1909Rivulet Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1910Northboro Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1910Woodside Woolen Millsthe scanned index
1910Pondville Woolen Millsthe 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
Woolen Mill, at
Dudley Woolen Mills
Rivulet Woolen Mills
Northboro Woolen Mills
Woodside Woolen Mills
Pondville Woolen Mills
Brick City 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.

The history of our woolen manufacture, now much the largest business in town, has never before been written. Through the active interest and co-operation of gentlemen now, or formerly, connected with the several firms, detailed statements have been secured in relation to the ten woolen mills in town, the annual products of which as shown from figures furnished by the different companies, amount to not far from 11,286,000.

Read the chapter on Leicester Town.

Named in the same survey

24 of 46 establishments shown

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. See all 46 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1888 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Collier & Butler, Woolen Mills in the 1888 atlasCollier & Butler, Woolen Millsmill1888
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 Methodist Episc. Church in the 1888 atlasMethodist Epise. Churchchurch1888
The index line reading Post Office Block in the 1888 atlasPost Office Blockice house1888
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 American Hotel in the 1889 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading First Congregational Church in the 1889 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Crystal Lake Hotel in the 1889 atlasCrystal Lake Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading High School in the 1889 atlasHigh Schoolschool1889
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 M. Estate, Wood Works in the 1889 atlasM. Estate, Wood Worksworks1889
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Pierce, S. K., & Son, Chair Factory in the 1889 atlasPierce, S. K., & Son, Chair Factorychair factory1889
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

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 Worcester 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.