First Congregational Church

The First Congregational Church's original 1815 steeple bell was cast by Paul Revere; it was later replaced with a bell cast by Henry N. Cooper & Co. of Boston, and the church's clock mechanism, from E. Howard & Co., strikes the hour, per Wikipedia's "Lyme, New Hampshire" article. Behind the church is a row of horse sheds dating from 1810; Wikipedia describes the 27 sheds standing today as "the longest line of contiguous horse sheds in New England, and possibly in the United States," each originally marked with its owner's name. The Lyme Common Historic District, encompassing the church and its surroundings, was established as the historic center of Lyme in 1781, covers 80 acres and about sixty historic buildings, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 1988, per Wikipedia's "Lyme Common Historic District" article.