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Red-tailed hawk staring down at camera.
08/10/2005    
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Local Landmarks of the Revolution

Old South Meetinghouse

The Haunted Steeple by FItch Poole, Jr.
The Wizard

Old Meetinghouses by Fitch Poole, Jr.
Danvers Courier

Theft of the Belfry by S. M. Smoller 
Salem Evening News


The Square, 1828  by Gideon Foster, Jr.
The Old South Meetinghouse with its round cupola is in the center.
The South Danvers Artillery is encamped on the military green in front of the Old South.
The small building to the left of the meetinghouse is an early school.
The hanging sign to the right of the meetinghouse advertises the Sun Tavern.  The original painting hangs in the Peabody Institute Library on Main Street.

Offline Resources

The Peabody Story by John Wells

at the Peabody Institute Library on microfilm
"Ordination Letter by Lawrence Conant" by Fitch Poole, Jr.  The Wizard,  4/25/1860 "A jeu d'espirit dated 9/25/1713 was a literary hoax that reported a letter was found in the original Old South Church before it was destroyed in 1836."