[MassHistPres] Old Town Halls

[James Hadley]

In about 1830 Mass. law required that the church and town have separate 
meetinghouses. Many church meetinbghouses were built then also.
Jim Hadley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan H. McArdle" <ahmcardle at gmail.com>
To: "'Tucker, Jonathan'" <TuckerJ at amherstma.gov>; <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Old Town Halls


> 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.
>>
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