community service with all being welcome. The Quakers
owned the church until 1972 when Orthodox Presbyterian
Reverend Charles Stanton secured the church to start a
congregation. He worked there until 1992 when he retired.
Later in 1995 he discussed the historic significance of the
church with local citizens and gave the structure to Frontier
Heritage Historical Society of Fort Fairfield.
Little had been done to the building since the
renovation of 1906. Time had taken its toll. The wainscoting
had bulged and the plaster behind the tin walls and ceiling
had deterioriated from a leaking roof. The floors had been
darkened with age and in one area it was severely burned
where a wood stove had overheated. The belfry attic had
become a shelter for feral cats and bees sought habitant
behind the loose clapboard exterior walls. The stained glass
window was bowed from the settling