Last week, we learned how Township No. 1’s Meeting House was finally constructed so it could be used by Rev. Adonijah Bidwell for weekly services and for town business. This week, we’ll see if we can figure out what the building may have looked like, and some of the formative events that were discussed and...
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Bidwell Lore – The Meeting House
Welcome to week 64 of Bidwell Lore. This week we share more information about the completion of the first Meeting House in Township #1. As we have learned over the past few weeks, it took more than thirteen years to build the first Meeting House in Township No. 1. But, finally, in October 1750, the Meeting House and...
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Bidwell Lore – The Meeting House and the Minister, Continued
Last week, we followed the efforts of the Proprietors—both the residents in Township No. 1 and the non-resident landowners who still lived in and near Watertown—who were trying to do what they needed to do to fulfill their dream for a City on the Hill: finish building their Meeting House on the hill, engage a...
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Bidwell Lore – A Second Meeting House, a Mohican Burial Ground, an Arboretum, Part I
Welcome to week 47 of Bidwell Lore! This week we start a new story about the history of the meeting houses in Stockbridge; below is Part I. “Let no one say the past is dead.The past is all about us and within.”Oodgeroo, Aboriginal poet, Australia The first meeting house in Stockbridge, constructed in 1739, was paid for by...