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Meeting House Erected: The village was settled about 1753 and has an old meeting house erected in 1787, one of Vermont's earliest churches. Township population: 5,704.
ROCKLAND, rok'bnd, is a city in Mai-and Knox County seat, on Penobscot Ba; 35 miles east-southeast of Augusta on tin
The Confederate Museum occupies a building also designed as a home by Mill, and erected in 1818. It is often referred to as the White House of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis having lived in it from 1861 to 1865. A third building of Robert Mills' design is the Monumental Church. Clas_sical Revival in style, and erected 1812-1814. It is a memorial to more than 70 people, including the governor of the state, who lost their lives in 1811 in a theater fire on the same site. During most of the war, General Robert E. Lee's family occupied the brick building, erected in 1845, which is now the headquarters of the Virginia Historical Society of which John Marshall was the first president.
Catholics are also especially interested in an old house in Amsterdam whose upper portion was a secret meeting place of persecuted Catholics during the Reformation and which became a private Catholic church, remaining in use until 1887. It was named the House of Our Dear Lord in the Garret and today, as the Amstelkring Museum, it houses an unusual collection of religious relics and curiosities.
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