This picture, taken in 1938, is of the Town
House at Middle Road Village
located on the east side of Merrill
Hill Road in Parsonsfield. The Town House was
built in 1832 across from the Congregational Church when the town and the
Church could no longer agree to share the church as a meeting house as they had
been doing since 1790. When the town was
founded in 1785, Middle Road
Village was a thriving community and the geographic center of the Town of Parsonsfield. In about 2002, a group of interested citizens called
“ROOT” (Restore Our Old Town House),
worked to restore the building to its original design and had it placed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Parsonsfield’s municipal offices were moved to Kezar Falls
Village in 1985 but all
residents south of North Road
continued to vote at this location. In 2012 the municipal offices moved from
the former Milliken School building in Kezar
Falls to the former Fred Morrill
School on North Road. The Town House is not used at this time.
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