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By 1809 the Beekman meeting had grown so quickly it was necessary to construct a new building, the one whose wing remains today. In keeping with updated Quaker practice, it was a long building with moderately pitched gable roof and a full-width porch on the west elevation. The original plan called for a 33-by-25-foot (10.1 by 7.6 m) with 11 ...
The cemetery is visited frequently by people doing genealogical research. The cemetery is under the care of the Springfield Memorial Association, founded in 1906, [2] which also has care of the 1858 meetinghouse (The Museum of Old Domestic Life) and the Allen Jay house. A guidebook (revised in 2017) helps visitors locate graves and provides ...
Queensbury Quaker Burying Ground, also known as the Queensbury Friends Cemetery and Old Quaker Cemetery, is a historic Quaker burying ground located near Queensbury in Warren County, New York. It was established about 1765 and remained in service until 1837. This cemetery was the first in Queensbury. [2] 1911 marker
Non-Quaker burials were originally confined to the northern section of the cemetery, the portion directly behind the meeting house. Members of the Society of Friends were buried in the middle portion of the cemetery, today surrounded by a loop in the gravel road that traverses the site. The most recent burials are found in the southernmost ...
The Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery, is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), rebuilt in 1881. It is located at 108 Smithfield Road in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (across the street from North Smithfield). The meetinghouse is home to one of the oldest Quaker communities in the region.
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The Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery is located at the junction of NY state highway 343 and Church Street, in the village of Millbrook, New York, United States. The meeting house , the third one on the site, was built by a group of Friends ("Quakers") from the Cape Cod region, Nantucket and Rhode Island in 1780.
The Quaker Cemetery is a privately owned cemetery in Leicester, Massachusetts, established in 1740 and located at the site of the old meeting house of the Leicester Friends on Earle Street in the village of Manville. The cemetery is still in use and is now maintained by the Worcester Friends Meeting.