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The priests and brothers of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary have resided on Eden Hill in Stockbridge, since June 1944. Father Walter Pelczynski, MIC , with the assistance of local clergy and friends of the Marian community, initially purchased 50 of the 370 acres (1.5 km 2 ) that constituted ...
The Congregational Church of West Stockbridge is an historic Congregational church building at 45 Main Street in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.Completed in 1882 for a congregation founded in 1774, it is the town's best example of Stick style architecture.
Church of the Ascension (Fall River, Massachusetts) Church of the Covenant (Boston) Church of the New Jerusalem (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Church on the Hill (Lenox, Massachusetts) Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Congregational Church (Southbridge, Massachusetts) Congregational Church of West Stockbridge
The downtown portion of Main Street is widely recognizable due to its use by Norman Rockwell in his 1967 painting, Main Street, Stockbridge at Christmas. The central portion of Main Street is a broad street with wide green lawns, anchored by a traditional New England town center containing a church and municipal buildings.
The city reportedly wanted to build a new city hall, park/square, and a small tract of land for new and more desirable business to incorporate a new image for the city. Stockbridge became the focus of national news and was also one of the largest issues in the 2006 Georgia General Assembly and their efforts to prevent abuse of eminent domain.
The town of Stockbridge was established in the late 1730s as a mission community to the Mahicans. John Sergeant was the first missionary, formally beginning his service in 1735. His first house, built in the valley where the Indians lived, has not survived; this house was built in the white community on the hill above the town following his ...
The Stockbridge Common Historic District encompasses the central portion of a rural 19th-century village center in Stockbridge, Vermont.Including the town common as well as a few buildings and an adjacent cemetery, it is a well-preserved example of a village bypassed by economic development during the 19th century industrial period.
John Sergeant (1710 – July 27, 1749) was an American missionary in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, through whose ministry many Mahicans converted to Christianity. Reverend Sergeant was a graduate of Yale, who became an ordained Puritan minister. [1]