MEETING HOUSE LOT AND TRAINING GROUND 1749

MEETING HOUSE LOT AND TRAINING GROUND
1749
THE PROPRIETORS OF THE OLD PURCHASE AT A MEETING HELD THE 6th DAY OF OCTOBER 1749 "THEN AGREED THERE SHOULD BE PART OF THAT LOT OF LAND CALLED THE MEETING HOUSE LOT AND TRAINING FIELD ABOUT AN ACRE AND A HALF TO LAY PERPETUALLY TO THAT END"

THE THIRD MEETING HOUSE (THE FIRST ON THIS SITE) WAS COMPLETED IN 1756

THE FOURTH MEETING HOUSE (THE SECOND ON THIS SITE) WAS COMPLETED IN 1796

THIS HOUSE WAS SOLD IN 1857,  "DISMANTLED" AND THE FRAME MOVED TO THE PRESENT SITE

THE ELM TREES AROUND THIS LOT
WERE GIVEN BY ELIJAH SWIFT AND SET OUT IN 1862 BY EPHRAIM SANFORD

TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THESE EVENTS THE TOWN OF FALMOUTH ERRECTED THIS MONUMENT
1980
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