Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . ame distanceback from the other side was the swamp or range ofhills. In many instances these towns remain to thisday unchanged in plan. In later times the church wasmoved from the common and placed on one side ofthe street in line with the houses. Enfield, Connecticut,and Longmeadow, Hadley, and Hatfield in Massachu-setts, are well known examples of the way in whichalmost all of the early settlements of the Connecticutvalley were laid out. In the construction of their houses and publicbuildings the first settlers used such materials as w
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . ame distanceback from the other side was the swamp or range ofhills. In many instances these towns remain to thisday unchanged in plan. In later times the church wasmoved from the common and placed on one side ofthe street in line with the houses. Enfield, Connecticut,and Longmeadow, Hadley, and Hatfield in Massachu-setts, are well known examples of the way in whichalmost all of the early settlements of the Connecticutvalley were laid out. In the construction of their houses and publicbuildings the first settlers used such materials as wereat hand and built with special reference to warmth,space and protection from wild beasts and the meeting house was erected with a view towarding off assaults from the savages. The turret atthe top of the house of worship served as a watchtower. The following is taken from a letter writtenin -1699 by Samuel Smith, of Hadley, Massachusetts:Ye firste Meetinge House was solid mayde to with-stand ye wicked onsaults of ye Red Skins. Its Foun-. SIIKE OF IHK (»IJ) SollH ( lirH( II. WHICH HADAK IMPOKTANT IPON LATER I>KS1(4NS FOR CHUKCH sriliKS IN NEW EN(iLAM) (TUKCfl 172!!
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