Helping fund the preservation, maintenance, and restoration of historic sites in the Town of Alna
Historic Heritage
Alna meetinghouse, ca. 1890s, showing a large crowd of meeting attendees, with horses and buggies at tie rails that surrounded the building.
With its 1789 meetinghouse, historic schools, and two districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places, cherished reminders Alna’s historic heritage are always on display for residents and visitors alike.
Center School
The Center School (ca. 1796) is one of six one-room schoolhouses that once existed in Alna. Built on high land near the meetinghouse and cemetery at the center of the farming community, today the school is set up as a school museum that may be viewed by appointment.
Puddle Dock School
The Village School at Puddle Dock, tucked behind the current post office building, has served in many roles, among which in living memory has included town office. With the interior restored, the space is currently available for small gatherings and events.
Alna’s historic buildings are community treasures that require care and maintenance in order to ensure that they are preserved for current and future generations of visitors and residents.
Alna Meetinghouse
At the farm-house of Israel Averill the first worship service was held in the North Parish of Pownalborough [now Alna] on the 5th of March 1777. Twelve years later, in 1789, enough people had settled in the high ground overlooking the Sheepscot River Valley, that they erected the first meeting house in the North Parish. Shortly afterwards they erected nearby a school-house and laid out a cemetery between the two buildings. All three still exist at the center of the original town. Larger than the Puddle Dock Schoolhouse, the space is currently available to rent, and is able to accommodate larger gatherings and events. The Meetinghouse is also available for viewing by appointment, and on special tour dates, which are usually scheduled once or twice each Summer. For rental or appointment information, please contact the Alna Town Office. (Phone: 207-586-5313)
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