 Jackson Community Church, 1846-47
In February 1846 a meeting was held at the schoolhouse in District No. 1 to consider erecting a building for religious worship. The Protestant Chapel Association was subsequently established for the purpose of building and preserving a house in Jackson for public worship.
The Methodist Chapel at Fryeburg, Maine (now the Grange Hall on Rt. 302) served as a model for the present Jackson Community Church. The chapel was constructed during the summer and fall months.
The chapel was the second religious building constructed in the town of Jackson. The first meeting house was located at the triangle at the intersection of Wilson Road and Route 16B, and at the time of its construction was probably near the town’s center of population. There is no evidence to suggest that those who formed the Protestant Chapel Association broke away from the church at the triangle. Instead, it appears that the congregation for a time alternated between the two places of worship. The center of population gradually shifted to the south due to the establishment of saw mills a gristmill, a blacksmith, clothespin factory and stores in the present village area. In 1855 the earlier meeting house at the triangle ceased to be used as a regular meeting house.
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