History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . TOWN HALL. CHAPTER VII. Town Meetings were at first almost invariably held in themeeting house, although occasionally in the school house,which, being centrally located, was quite as convenient, andas in the early years there were no conveniences for warm-ing the meeting house, the school house could be made fullyas comfortable. It seems that early in the 19th century (between 1820 and1830) a hall had been built by individuals, which the townand parish had both use
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . TOWN HALL. CHAPTER VII. Town Meetings were at first almost invariably held in themeeting house, although occasionally in the school house,which, being centrally located, was quite as convenient, andas in the early years there were no conveniences for warm-ing the meeting house, the school house could be made fullyas comfortable. It seems that early in the 19th century (between 1820 and1830) a hall had been built by individuals, which the townand parish had both used for all their common purposes,lectures, lyceums and conference meetings, but of which theparish had the full control. In the meantime and in the years following, the matter ofbuilding a town hall had been frequently discussed in townmeetings, but with no definite result, until it was proposedby the Parish to dispose of the building and ground and pro-vide another place for Parish purposes. The Parish proposedin 1836 to provide a place in the basement story of thechurch, suitable for the uses of both town and Parish. Thiswa
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