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HISTORY OF con ASSET. 



to advocate the establishment of a church in Beech- 

 wood.* 



Those families which had been in the habit of walking 

 six miles each Sabbath in order to attend church could be 

 relied upon to form the nucleus of an organization within 

 their own neighborhood. 



Religious services had been held occasionally in the 

 schoolhouse, with preaching by Rev. Joseph Osgood, Rev. 

 Frederick A. Reed, and Rev. Stephen Puffer, of the Cohas- 



Photo, Harriet A. Nickerson. 



Heechwood Congregational Church. 

 Built 1866. 



set churches, and by others. Rev. E. P. Dyer, of Hing- 

 ham, was particularly influential in securing a permanent 



*A LIST OF PASTORS OF THE BEECHWOOD CONGREGATIONAL 



