Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley (1911)
Wight, Charles Albert, 1856- · [Chicopee Falls, Mass., The Rich print · leaf 77
hatday—and two turrets, one designed for a bell, the otherfor a watch tower. For a little more than three decades this buildingstood as a witness to the zeal of the first settlers of thetown for the public worship of God. Among theworshipers in this house was Deacon Samuel Chapin,whose heroic… … THE FIRST nIEli:xI^G house:. and much property, the meeting house, which wasfortified, narrowly escaped destruction. In 1677 it wastaken down and the second house of worship erectednear the south west angle of Court Square. This wasa much larger and more commodious building thanthe first. Rev.…
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