The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 4-1948 Maine Alumnus, Volume 29, Number 7, April 1948 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 29, Number 7, April 1948" (1948). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 145. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/145 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. < ** y-v"*” v' A J * / * . V , ' . • Y*/ s' '> ■v> ' •' • • • Y*. / - . ■ • . / ■' v ’ V; >»- / }* • < • ... :.. v- •• •; v^-._<,■••••■//. :--' W ■ V.vv;. •• i W f< ‘ . A :•"/*• •• ‘ < . — * • ■ ‘ .W • .* % »v />» V- >• * .>>••'*. ■ ' •;~ f‘ V‘.\■ / * • . /•. ’ '* . j • . •• V ' • • • - - * \ cCC#' v •/ REPRODUCTION FROM A COLOR PRINT FROM A SERIES “ EARLY LANDMARKS OF PORTLAND " COPYRIGHT 1945 THE CANAL NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND PORTLAND Ma in e % Jirst cPansh cJ W House The first place of worship in Casco Neck, now Portland, was a rude By 1740 Parson Smith’s congregation had outgrown this church. A new structure, believed to be of logs, located on the waterfront where Hancock building of wood, known as "Old Jerusalem," was erected on Congress Street now joins Fore Street George Burroughs, that unfortunate man who Street at the head of Meeting House Lane, now Temple Street A steeple later was convicted of witchcraft at Salem, was the minister of the church was built in 1759 The pews were first painted August 7, 1803, and that from 1674 to 1676, and again from 1683 until 1690 The building was Sunday there was no service because the paint was not yet dry.