Falmouth-by-the-sea : the Naples of America . Parsonage of First Congregational Church. 27. * I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than todwell in the tents of wickedness. THE first Meeting- House was erected near the old burying- ground, probablybetween 1690 and 1700. In 1715 a new house was built upon the samespot, for the towns use for the public worship of God and to meet in opentown occasions. The next Meeting House was built in 1750, on the MeetingHouse Green, which had been set apart for this purpose by the town proprie-tors the previous year. The present house was buil
Falmouth-by-the-sea : the Naples of America . Parsonage of First Congregational Church. 27. * I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than todwell in the tents of wickedness. THE first Meeting- House was erected near the old burying- ground, probablybetween 1690 and 1700. In 1715 a new house was built upon the samespot, for the towns use for the public worship of God and to meet in opentown occasions. The next Meeting House was built in 1750, on the MeetingHouse Green, which had been set apart for this purpose by the town proprie-tors the previous year. The present house was built in 1796 on the same spot,moved to its present location, and entirely remodeled in 1857.
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