From your website link.....
www.unionchurchmeredith.com/about.htm under the About heading, and HISTORY ..... "At a propritious moment during construction, a call was received from a Lester Downing of Alton Bay offering to donate the 175-pound bell that once was on the side wheeler, Mount Washington. According to him, it was used instead of a whistle to frighten horses they moved from point to point."