Item 101082 - Middle Intervale Meetinghouse, Bethel, ca. 1970
- Item 101082 - Middle Intervale Meetinghouse, Bethel, ca. 1970
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- Item 101082
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Image Info Constructed in 1816 as a combination Baptist/Methodist church and town meeting place, Bethel's "Center Meetinghouse" became the sole property of the Baptists in 1857.
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After the Civil War, church membership steadily declined and by the turn of the twentieth century, the facility was rarely used for religious purposes.
