East Congregational Church Information

East Church, as we fondly nickname it, is the "pretty" church sitting diagonally at the corner of Adams Street and Granite Place. The original organizational meeting was held in 1843 above Babcock's Store in "Railway Village" (E. Milton Square) with 18 people from Milton and Quincy. Services were held in this hall and for a short time in the "Old Stone Church" which was built in 1826 at Adams and Church Streets by Unitarians who had broken away from their Quincy church. The church was later used for the first Roman Catholic services in Milton. In 1843 a new Congregational parish was formed in East Milton known then as the Second Evangelical Church. Land was purchased, and, three years later, the meetinghouse was built at 577 Adams Street. For almost 105 years, this was the house of worship. Even before there was a formal building there was a Sunday School. The women in the church organized the Ladies Aid Society (now the Women's Society) in 1860 for the purpose of sewing for the soldiers in the Civil War. At one point in 1890 there were only 11 members and the women of the Ladies Aid Society were largely responsible for keeping things going. In 1898 the church was incorporated and the name was changed to the East Congregational Church of Milton.