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The Town Hill Green is New Hartford as a neatly trimmed open lot in a rural, heavily wooded area at the corner of Town Hill Road (Route 219) and Hoppen Road. The lot is bordered to the north and east by an old stone fence. The foundation of an early nineteenth century church, the second meetinghouse, remains on the lot. The foundation has been filled in and planted to form a large raised platform upon which two monuments have been erected, on the north and south facing each other. The monument to the north commemorates the first settlers of New Hartford and the monument to the south commemorates the first meeting house erected in 1739. A plaque is mounted on the rear or south side of this latter monument noting that an oak tree planted 153 feet northeast of the monument is a scion of the Charter Oak. A bell which had been in the steeple of the 19th century church is mounted on the east side of the foundation platform. The platform is planted with evergreen trees and shrubs and conveys a quiet sense of dignity about the pioneer activity represented by these remains and monuments.

A time capsule was buried on the green just south of the foundation platform in 1977 during the New Hartford bicentennial celebration to be opened in 2076, the New Hartford tercentennial.

A few residential buildings can be seen from the green, particularly a center-chimney colonial across Route 219. It is the oldest in the immediate area. The rest date from the 19th and 20th centuries. The early buying ground is located on Hoppen Road east of the green. The foundation remains give the area an almost haunted feeling.

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