'Built in 1829 on North Street, sixty-four pews on floor, twenty-two pews in the gallery. Phebe Hanaford was the first women ordained in the U.S. and 4th in the world at this meetinghouse. The Universalists disbanded in 1927. The Odd Fellows bought in 1930. Henry Ford bought the Revere cast bell in 1930 and had it put into the Martha-Mary Chapel in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan. The Odd Fellows disbanded in 1989. The Young family (Andrea, Randy, Margaret, and Benjamin) were the first homeowners of this converted building in 1993. Location: North Street.'
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