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Photo Credit Beet Blossom History The original Newtown Meeting House was built in 1720 where the flagpole stands today at a cost of 45 pounds sterling. As in most colonial villages the Meeting House was used for town business during the week religious services all day Sunday and prayer meeting one night of the week. By 1792 a series of local events required that the building be moved and on July 13 1792 a body of men raised the building onto logs and with the aid of horses rolled the building 132 feet to its present location in the middle of West Street. To the best of our knowledge this Meeting House is the only one in Connecticut and possibly all New England which is sitting in an original colonial site position in the middle of the street.