Wayland Town Crier 8/6/10: 'Wayland A to Z': 'T' is for 'Town Halls'.  When Deacon James Draper contracted to build the first town hall building in 1841, he offered to donate the land and to accept his fee in $200 annual payments until "the debt becomes extinct." The town promptly accepted his offer. And that was the last time building a town hall in Wayland was easy and without controversy.