Weathervane Wednesday ~ Two Baptist Churches in Maine

I post another in a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  Often my readers tip me off to some very unique or unusual weathervanes, too!  If you know a great weather vane near you, let me know if you'd like to have it featured on this blog.

Today's weather vanes were photographed in Maine.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #383?  Scroll down to find the answer.

And also...

The first church photographed above is the Free Baptist Church in South Berwick, Maine.  This church congregation was organized in 1834 as the "Free Will Baptist Church", and the building was just one story.  The cemetery behind the building began that year, too.  The meetinghouse was enlarged in 1855, and then it was raised ten feet in 1885 to accommodate Sunday school on the first floor.  The town clock, the only one in South Berwick, was added in 1889.  Perhaps the arrow weathervane was added at this time, when the steeple was renovated for the clock?

The second church, just down the street, is the First Baptist Church in South Berwick.  The first building by this congregation was a meetinghouse near Great Hill built in 1767.  This current building was erected in 1823.  The scrolled weathervane on the steeple seems to date to a time later than 1823, perhaps in the middle of the 1800s when fancy weathervanes like this were machine made or ordered through catalogs?


South Berwick Free Baptist Church    http://www.sbfbc.org/ 

First Baptist Church, South Berwick, Maine    https://www.fbcsouthberwick.org/ 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ Two Baptist Churches in Maine", Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 3, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/08/weathervane-wednesday-two-baptist.html: accessed [access date]).