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Churches and Meeting Houses |
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Unlike present day Churches, most early American Churches doubled as Meeting Houses for the purposes of town meetings, school, and social events. They were central to the village, and usually the largest building in town. |
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Row 1, L-R: St. Matthew's, Sugar Hill, NH; Meeting House, Sandwich, NH; Start Union Church, Stark, NH; Westmoreland, NH
Row 2, L-R: Tamworth Village, Tamworth, NH; Grace Fellowship Church, Nashua, NH; Bradford Center, NH; Grace Fellowship CHurch, Nashua, NH; Church, Weare, NH
Row 3, L-R: Marker at Meeting House, Wells, ME; Meeting House of the First Parish Unitarian, Bedford, MA, erected 1816; Thetford Methodist Church, Thetford, VT; Rockport Baptist Church, Rockport, MA; Meeting House, So. Sutton, NH; Webster Congregational Church, Webster, NH; Stark Union Church, Stark, NH; St. Matthew's, Sugar Hill, NH
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