By Marion Emery
Over 200 years ago, in October of 1798, after organizing a church,
neighbors in the Megquier Hill area of West Poland gathered for services
in private homes, barns and groves.
In 1834, the present Megquier Hill Meetinghouse was built by community
neighbors under the leadership of the Reverend James Libby. He remained as
pastor of the First Free Will Baptist Church for some 34 years. The land
for the Meetinghouse and its nearby cemetery was donated by John Megquier.
By 1900, the large Advent Church congregation had ceased and for the
next fifty years little activity was evident. Then the Church of the
Nazarene re-opened the Meetinghouse. Various denominations have been
housed there in the following years until 1998.
