[ 14 ] Methodist Church Bell

A first Methodist Meeting House was built in 1816 on the site of the present Pleasant Hill Cemetery. This larger Church, which had been extensively remodeled in 1863, was struck by lightning in 1891 and burned to the ground. The original cast steel bell, manufactured by “Naylor Vickery and  Co. 1859, of Sheffield E. Riepe’s patent”, survived and was placed on the church site to serve South lawn.  One of the most generous donors to the reconstruction fund was Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker.

On Easter Sunday, 1966, two stained glass windows designed by British artist, Claire Leighton, a Wellfleet resident for many years, were dedicated in memory of the family of Mrs. Annie B. Higgins who sang in the choir; her sister, Annie Higgins Wiley, had been the organist.