[MassHistPres] Old Town Halls

[Alan H. McArdle]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. The MACRIS link worked very
nicely. I had thought of that but hadn't got to the point of figuring out
the query.

It looks like the 1830's and 1840's saw a big boom in building things
labeled town halls. Whately seems to have built its town hall about midway
through the period. It looks like there are about 40 or 45 towns with older
buildings than ours but most are at only about 10 years older. Pelham looks
like it has the oldest.

Alan McArdle, Chair
Whately Historic Commission

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tucker, Jonathan [mailto:TuckerJ at amherstma.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:06 PM
> To: Alan H. McArdle; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> Subject: RE: [MassHistPres] Old Town Halls
> 
> Pelham's Old Meeting House is still used and dates from 1743.
>