#clapboardtree meeting house

[1937book]

Clapboardtree Meeting House

Here we are in Westwood. Yes. We were giddy about that, too. Anyway, Westwood, altitude of 102, population in 1937 of 2,537. It was settled in 1640 and incorporated in 1897. The book tells us that it "has been occupied by those who loved the land," but that by 1937 agriculture had become "the hobby of retired business men."

This Clapboardtree Meeting House was supposed to have been on the town green. It's not, and we would never have found it without CHEATING. (The Internet was involved.) But, we did eventually find it, so here it is. Built in 1731, it was white with green blinds in 1937 as well. The 1937 book praises the building's "well-proportioned belfry."