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Title: History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts. : Preceded by an account of old Quabaug, Indian and English occupation, 1647-1676; Brookfield records, 1686-1783
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Temple, J. H. (Josiah Howard), 1815-1893 Adams, Charles, 1810-1886
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Publisher: North Brookfield : Pub. by the town (Boston, printed)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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thers, infavor of the cessation of international wars. Here also the tall, slim,youthful, and studious Charles Sumner made his first appearance in thetown, in his lecture upon The Value of Time, opening with thesequoted words, I have lost a day. DESTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING. In the early winter of 1S46, while a Sunday evening meeting was beingheld in the Hall by the Methodists, the preacher from his place in thedesk noticed near the remote south-east corner, over a lamp, a holeburned through the plastering, and notified the congregation, which im-mediately broke up ; and it was found that the attic and roof were wellon fire, and, as there was no means of suppressing the fire, the wholestructure was soon in ruins. By deed dated March 5, 1847, the town bought of George H. Lowe,for two thousand dollars, the Old White Store, and the land there-with. The store building was sold to Edmund Smith for about three hundredand fifty dollars, and removed, at an expense to the town of sixty-six dol-
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SCHOOLHOUSES. 467 lars, to Mr. Smiths land on the corner of Main and Maple Streets, andused as a part of his shoe manufactory ; and now (in 1887) is occupiedby the Knights of Labor organization as a store and hall, it having beenrecently very nicely fitted up for them by the present owners, Messrs.E. & A. H. Batcheller & Co. The town, by their building committee, Freeman Walker, WilliamAdams, Pliny Nye, Bonum Nye, Charles Duncan, Timothy P. Clark, andChauncy Edmands, soon after the purcha-e of the land, erected a newbuilding, probably about fifty by seventy-five feet on the ground, costinga little over nine thousand dollars. The basement story was occupiedas a stove and tinware shop, meat-market, etc. ; the ground story on theMain Street as a store or stores ; and the rear or west end was finishedoff as the Lower Town Hall, and used for small meetings, schools,etc., until the partition was removed, and the room added to the rearend of the stores. The Town Hall and ante-rooms o

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