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PULPIT ROCK~For more than 200 years, the so-called ‘ Metham watch’, in what is now Bridee st, Was 2 guide, landmark and remlezvous. For the past 30 years it has been an object of interest to Waterers because of the commemorative bronze tablet describing an incident which occur red there. Many have stopped to read the in scription. The notch through which the present roast runs, is a natural rift in the rock ledges. It was on the course of one of the two trails to the North that passed through off Dunstable and Dracut on each side of Beaverbrook. Scotch, English and rich emigrants, who came over to the New World, traveled in bands up the Merrimack river, heading for promised lands, to the north of Massachusetts. Some of them followed the old Indian trail through what ‘hay still a Wilderness in the early 1700s Erent The “Great Burt on the Merrimack river to Lord lowry, new Derry, NL Incidents in the journeys Lone or two of these groups have been pres erved in part. That the boulder, now called Pulpit Rock, “sas the site of the first sermon preached in Pele ham is fimly entrenched in tradition and history, that details as to who detened 29 the first transient preacher on that April morning have been ob scured by lime. Certainly, though, this spat made an ideal pulpit for an open-air church and for the pious settlers who paused to give thanks for the opportunity of living and working in a Breal new country. '», RM ex =a
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Nashua Telegraph
Nashua, New Hampshire, US
Fri, Nov 02, 1962
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