Rocky Hill Meetinghouse, Amesbury, Massachusetts
(GPS location N00° 00′ 00″, W00° 00′ 00″)
The Rocky Hill Meetinghouse in Amesbury, MA is perhaps the finest example
of a colonial meetinghouse.
Amesbury, located on the Merrimack River just inland from Newburyport, MA, was a wealthy
shipping and manufacturing community,
and they buily a fine meetinghouse.
Fortunately, when the time came for them to need a larger structure, they built
a new building and left the original meetinghouse as it was.
Now managed by
Historic New England,
The Rocky Hill Meetinghouse is an historical jem.
It was built in 1785.
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