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    Congregational Church, Dennysville, Maine

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    Congregational Church building, Dennysville, Maine from the John Sheahan Collection c. 1880's. The louvers had yet to be added to the base of the steeple. The carriage shed is shown at the right of the church building.

    A Congregational Church was organized in 1805, under the direction of missionary Jotham Sewall, who had been visiting the community each fall since 1801. The first ten members, Dennysville, Pembroke and Robbinston, worshipped the schoolhouse. By 1833 the Church built a commodious meetinghouse on the brow of the hill where the school, which had been relocated 100 feet to the south, had previously stood. In 2005 the Church celebrated its 200th anniversary by building a Parish Hall connected to the church building.

    Views of the Congregational Meetinghouse in Dennysville Maine

    Congregational Church, Dennysville, Maine; Photo courtesy of The Tides Institute, Eastport, Maine
    Congregational Church, Dennysville, Maine with the school on the left.; Photo courtesy of The Tides Institute, Eastport, Maine Mr. Johnson's Sunday School Class on the Congregational Church steps, 1936; Front Row (left to right): Helen Damon, Florence McLauchlin, Blanch Morrison, Maxine Phinney, _?_, Rebecca Hobart, Ruth Hayward; Middle Row: James Munson, Dyer Higgins, George Dennysville High School reunion group gathered on the front step of the Congregational Church building, in the 1980s; Picture includes, Front Row, middle, Shirley (Ward) Wilder Godet, Alberta (Brown) and Ralph Preston, Barbara (Brown) Lingley, and in the back Row, Lewis Lyons, Mary Mahar, Albert Mahar, Rebeca Hobart, Milton Lyons, _?_ Karen Seeley, Lester Seeley. Characters in historical sketch for the sesquicentennial of the Congregational Church in Dennysville, 1980., 1980; Randall Plotts as the Reverend Mr. Crossett, Milton Lyons as the Reverend Mr. Stearns, Ned Sheahan as Deacon John Kilby, Harry Lingley as the Reverend Mr. Whittier, and Colin Cruickshank-Windhorst as the Reverend Mr. Sewall. Congregation with the Reverend Mr. Carl Kingsbury in the 1950's.; A note on the back of the photo reads: Pastor Carl Kingsbury, Cousin Margaret Wilder, Annie Gardner, Irving Kilby, Maxwell Gardner, (in a different hand) Edith M. Tobey, Dennysville-Edmunds Congregational-Christian Church, 150th Anniversary celebration, 1955. Photograph stamped: The Irene Smith Studio, Machias, Maine. Historical characters at the reception for the 175 anniversary of the Dennysville-Edmunds Congregational Church, at the Cannery Clubhouse on Hinkely Point; Harry Lingley as the Reverend Mr. Whittier, Cedric Brooks as the Reverend Mr. Jones, Pastor Douglas Dinsmore as himself, Edmunds Sheahan as Deacon John Kilby, Randall Plotts as the Reverend Mr. Crossett, Marion Sheahan as Ida Vose Woodbury, Colin Cruickshank-Windhorst as the Reverend Jotham Sewall, and Deacon Milton Lyons as the kindly Reverend Mr. Stearns. Congregational Church building in Dennysville, Maine, in 1955; View of the Dennysville Meetinghouse from the old Church driveway. Dennysville-Edmunds Congregational Meetinghouse in winter. Congregational belfry and steeple in the 1980's; View of the Congregational Meetinghouse from Route 86, after the first restoration of the weathervane in the 1980's.