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  • Subject starts with "Bethel (Me.) -- Church history"

COLL 129: Middle Intervale Meeting House Collection

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Record books and written and typed material relating to the early history of the Middle Intervale Meeting House. This includes records from the First Baptist Society of Bethel going back to 1795. (The meeting house was built 1816.)

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COLL 89: Moses Davis Papers

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Collection of papers relating to Moses Davis (1802-1835), who was a Methodist minister in Bethel for a brief period.

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COLL 75: Middle Intervale Meeting House Society Collection

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A collection of papers and artifacts from the Middle Intervale Meeting House Society.

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COLL 66: Meeting House Model Construction Photos

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Collection of documents and image created by James Auman during various stages of the construction process of his scale model of the first West Parish Congregational Meeting House at Bethel, which was built in 1807, and torn down in 1848.

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COLL 45: West Bethel Union Church Records

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Photocopies of records from West Bethel Union Church and the sewing circle affiliated with the church.

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COLL 19: West Parish Congregational Church Records

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Photocopies and transcripts of original records books

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BHS Program: "Memorable Women of the Bethel Congregational Church"

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Bethel Historical Society program, "Memorable Women of the Bethel Congregational Church," presented by Margaret Joy Tibbetts at West Parish Congregational Church on February 25, 1987.

Bethel's First Meetinghouse Re-Discovered

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Bethel's First Meetinghouse Re-Discovered by Randall H. Bennett Portland's Cumberland County Courthouse of 1785, which served as the model for Bethel's first meetinghouse, built in 1807 From Portland in the Past (1886) Thanks to the research…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 10, No. 4

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Features: Bethel's First Meetinghouse Re-discovered by Randall H. Bennett -- 1 A review of On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What it Means by Carol Kammen [reviewed by Stanley Russell Howe] --…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 8, No. 1

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Features: Bethel in the Great Depression by Margaret Joy Tibbetts -- 1 A review of Simple Forms and Vivid Colors: An Exhibition of Maine Painted Furniture, 1800-1850 by Edwin A. Churchill [reviewed by F. Barrie Freeman] Society…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 4

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Features: Church Street through the Years by Rosalind R. Chapman -- 1 Book Review: Florence E. O'Connor, The Ancestors and Descendants of Asa Freeman Ellingwood and Florilla (Dunham) Ellingwood -- 8 Society news: 1981 Program Annonced for…

The Bethel Courier, Vol. 4, No. 2

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Features: Mayville, My Mayville by Donald G. Bennett -- 1 Book Review: Andover: The First 75 Years by the Andover Friday Club [reviewed by Larry Billings] -- 5 Dr. Moses Mason [excerpt from Mrs. Cyrene Jane Cummings Bean's manuscriptThe Early…

BHS Program: "History of the Bethel Methodist Church"

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Bethel Historical Society meeting of August 5, 1993 and program, "History of the Bethel Methodist Church," presented by Arlene Brown.