Sugar Hill Chapel
Sugar Hill was a bustling waterfront community. Reverend Hosea Joslin built the Sugar Hill Chapel out of a need for a Church on the waterfront. Hosea noticed that the sailors who would occasionally attend services would stop visiting after a few Sundays. He investigated, and learned they were uncomfortable among the inland people and were too poor to pay rent for pews or contribute to collection plates. The Church was a success up until Reverend Hosea’s death in 1880. In 1961, the chapel was purchased by Fred and Ethel Noyes, who owned the Historic Towne of Smithville.Hosea’s great great grandchild, James McCarthy, was married in the church while it still existed as such, back in the early 1980’s.
