"Waymarks"

Along with the Town of Hampstead the Hampstead Meeting House is celebrating its 275th anniversary. I have heard that it is the oldest continuously used meeting house in NH. According to Wikipedia: “The Hampstead Meetinghouse, also once known as Hampstead Town Hall, is a historic meeting house... The core of this dual-purpose (religious and civic) structure was begun in 1749, although its interior was not completely finished until about 1768. It is one of a number of… 18th-century meeting houses in southeastern New Hampshire, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. …It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Unlike 19th-century churches, it has its original main entrance on the long side, at the center of a five-bay facade. The entrance is framed by pilasters and a triangular pediment. A bell tower rises just to the left of the main block, with a similarly styled second entrance at its base. It rises square to an open octag...