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Article: Here's a chance you may dig ; Historical society will hold session for people who'd like to hunt for old meeting house
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- September 26, 2008
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Duxbury
The Duxbury Rural and Historical Society will host an orientation
session at 1 p.m. Saturday for volunteers interested in helping with
the society's upcoming archaeological dig.
Archaeologists plan to dig next month on a Chestnut Street site,
looking for the foundation of the Second Meeting House.
The society believes that the First Meeting House, built around
1637 on what is now a cemetery, was replaced by the Second Meeting
House, just to the east of the cemetery, around 1706.
The Second Meeting House was the center of Duxbury's religious
and secular affairs for nearly 80 years. It was replaced by the
Third Meeting House, which was built in 1785 on Tremont Street.
The Second ...