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Ifield Friends Meeting House, one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker buildings in the world. Britain Yearly Meeting is the organization of Quakers in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Several meeting houses have been listed for their architectural merit. Notable individual meeting houses include:
Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse, Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland; Schuylkill Friends Meeting House, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania; Seaville Friends Meeting House, Seaville community, Upper Township, New Jersey, Cape May County, New Jersey, this 1716–1727 meeting house is the smallest frame Quaker meeting house in the United States. [40]
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
A Quaker school, Sandy Spring Friends School, was established in 1961. In 1967 a Quaker retirement community, Friends House, was founded next to the school. The Sandy Spring Library opened behind the Sandy Spring Store in 1842. [1] The Farmer's Club of Sandy Spring was established in 1844 to discuss preferable methods of farming. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
The U.S. Post Office at Galesville, Maryland, in May 2010. Galesville is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. [2] As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 685. [3]
The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the Province of Pennsylvania, a British colony in North America (today a U.S. state), settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers in the late 17th century. The region is located to the west of Philadelphia.