HISTORY OF THE
MEETINGHOUSE
First Parish Meetinghouse stands at the foot of Plymouth’s Burial Hill and the top of Leyden Street, the oldest street
in America and the original site of Plimoth Plantation. There has been a place of worship on this site
continually since the Pilgrims built
their Fort Meetinghouse here in 1622.
The present Meetinghouse is the fifth structure built here and was designed by Hartwell, Richardson and Driver of Boston. It was constructed with funds raised through a national campaign, and was dedicated as the
“National Memorial Pilgrim Church” in 1899.
The current Meetinghouse replaced
a wooden structure that burned to
the ground in 1892 when...
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