1844: Trinitarian Church & It’s Bell

The Trinitarian Church was established in 1844 as an anti-slavery church. Benjamin Snow Jr. Co-founded the Trinitarian Congregational Church and Worcester North Chapter of the American Anti-Slavery Society, housed within the church.

Benjamin Snow Jr. purchased the Bell at an auction and placed it in the belfry of the Trinitarian Congregational Church. He requested the church to wait until enslaved persons were freed before ringing the bell at sunset on January 1st 1863 after Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. The ringing of the bell symbolized freedom for formerly
enslaved people. The Trinitarian Congregational Church which once stood at the corner of Main Street and Wallace Avenue (formerly Church Street), was disbanded in 1870.