The timbers in the original post and beam construction show the marks of being hewn square with an adze (an axe like tool with a horizontal blade like a hoe). Square cut nails also indicate an earlier age. Hudson’s History of Sudbury indicates that there was a nail mill on Hop Brook at one time. Perhaps some of these came from there. There was a time when this was the new addition to the second Meetinghouse of the congregation. The first had been built 100 years before and that is 268 years before today. Thirteen generations of families have come to this place and made it theirs.