While the building itself has long since disappeared, the East Parish Burying Ground is still in existence and a monument marks the location of the early building near the top of the hill.īy 1774, the population of the settlement had shifted south and the remoteness and inconvenience of the first meeting house’s location resulted in the construction of a new meeting house at the corner of Centre and Homer streets, which was then considered to be the approximate center of the town. In 1660, the colonists were granted their independence from Cambridge and a meetinghouse was built at the corner of what is now Centre & Cotton Streets. However, as the number of settlers increased, sentiment grew for the establishment of a church in Newton. As the early settlement was sparse, residents were forced to travel to Cambridge to attend religious services. Present day Newton has its origins in the mid-1630s as an early offshoot of Cambridge.
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