New Hartford’s first meeting house was raised on this plot in 1739, and the second church was built on these same foundations in 1829. After 1854 it was no longer used as a place of worship, and it was finally removed in 1929. For one hundred and fifteen years, four pastors ministered here to the townspeople as they turned more and more from agriculture to manufacturing and made their homes in the adjacent valleys to the north and south: Reverend Jonathan Marsh, 1739-1791; Reverend Edward D. Griffin, 1795-1801; Reverend Amasa Jerome, 1802-1813; and Reverend Cyrus Yale, 1814-1854.