Three Churches, One Tangled Past: A Hadlyme North Joke

Hadlyme North, sandwiched between East Haddam and Lyme, is the stomping ground of a 300-year-old argument solved in 1821. The contentious soil still splits the neighborhood. The historic area, with 39 key structures and 12 insignificant ones, boasts 16 diverse houses, such as Georgian and Colonial Revival. Despite their preservation, they lack architectural charm. The Hadlyme Ecclesiastical Society, born in 1743, held sessions in district buildings until 1890.

Three churches persist, but only the Hadlyme Congregational Church, an 1840 Greek Revival wonder, remains active. Lurana W. Sheldon and Alice Hamilton are merely two players in this bizarre story. The Congregational Church remains near the graveyard, dated to 1750, located just north of the Church. A ferry once bridged Hadlyme North and Chester, but a post office, a vintage shop, and a country store are the few survivors of the old transport system that serves the district on the National Register of Historic Places.

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