Jonathan Fisher House
A half-mile west of the village of Blue Hill, this is the best “museum” in town. Parson Fisher, Blue Hill’s first permanent minister, was a small-town Renaissance man when he settled here in 1796. Educated at Harvard, Fisher not only delivered sermons in six different languages (including Aramaic), but was also a writer, painter, and inventor of boundless energy. On a tour of this yellow clapboard house, which he built himself in 1814, you can view a clock with wooden works and a camera obscura that Fisher made, plus pictures he painted and books he wrote, published, and bound by hand. Outside, the property’s owners are slowly recreating Fisher’s original orchard.
A half-mile west of the village of Blue Hill, this is the best “museum” in town. Parson Fisher, Blue Hill’s first permanent minister, was a small-town Renaissance man when he settled here in 1796. Educated at Harvard, Fisher not only delivered sermons in six different languages (including Aramaic), but was also a writer, painter, and inventor of boundless energy. On a tour of this yellow clapboard house, which he built himself in 1814, you can view a clock with wooden works and a camera obscura that Fisher made, plus pictures he painted and books he wrote, published, and bound by hand. Outside, the property’s owners are slowly recreating Fisher’s original orchard.
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