About 1810, people began to settle in what was then called “Antioch,”
now the village. Mr. Stephen Chase, as I have said before, built the
first framed house, also the first framed barn. The second was built on
the farm of the Hon. Crosby Fowler.
The brick house on the Chase place, now owned by F. A. Whitten, was
built by Stephen Chase’s son, Judge Hezekiah Chase, in 1826. The brick
was made by Levi Bacon.
A little later the brick house in front of the church was built by
Lemuel Bartlett. It was long owned by the late Benj. Fogg and is now in
the possession of Mrs. J. W. Harmon. The carpenter was a Mr. Berry from
Rockland.
Rufus Burnham, M. D., in 1827 built the main house where James R. Taber
now lives.
Elijah Winslow built the house now owned by J. A. Adams in 1842. Henry
Kelley did the masonry.