. Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley. having beendamaged by lightning in a terrific thunder storm,July 22, 1903, was taken down and the present towerwith its classic adornments constructed in its place. Thechurch standing as it does on the brow of the hill, ashort distance from Main street, is a reminder of for-mer days, when most of the substantial citizens ofChicopee Falls had their homes in the neighborhoodand no additions to the population had been made byimmigrants from Ireland and Canada and accompanying map of Chicopee Falls, made byMr. T. W. Carter, bears
. Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley. having beendamaged by lightning in a terrific thunder storm,July 22, 1903, was taken down and the present towerwith its classic adornments constructed in its place. Thechurch standing as it does on the brow of the hill, ashort distance from Main street, is a reminder of for-mer days, when most of the substantial citizens ofChicopee Falls had their homes in the neighborhoodand no additions to the population had been made byimmigrants from Ireland and Canada and accompanying map of Chicopee Falls, made byMr. T. W. Carter, bears no date, but was evidentlymade about 1839. The Congregational church, whichis sketched in the upper right hand corner of the map,was built in 1833, whereas the cottage located on thesouth east end of the Carter homestead, which wasbuilt as early as 1843, does not appear in the Mary H. Carter, daughter of Mrs. T. W. Carter,and Mr. E. Dwight King, a life long resident ofChicopee Falls, are both of the opinion that the mapwas made about 1839. 115. First Congregational ChurchEasthampton, Massachusetts THE members of the First CongregationalChurch in Easthampton recently celebratedthe one hundred and twenty fifth anniversaryof the organization of their church. The SpringfieldRepublican, the day following the celebration, con-tained the following brief outline of the churchshistory: The church was organized November 17, 1785, at the house ofCaptain Joseph Clapp. There were seventy two original members,forty six dismissed from the Northampton church and twenty sixfrom the Southampton church. Rev. Payson Williston was called April6, 1789. Previous to that Rev. Aaron Walworth preached. Williston was ordained August 13, 1789, age twenty six. StephenWright and Benjamin Lyman were the first deacons. Rev. served until March 11, 1833. He died in 1856. Bement was the next pastor, serving from 1833 to 1850, whenRev. Rollins S. Stone was installed. Rev
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