Friends Meetinghouse (Jamestown, Rhode Island)

(Redirected from Old Friends' Burial Ground) Historic building in Rhode Island, United States United States historic place

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Friends Meetinghouse
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Conanicut Friends Meeting House
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Location	Jamestown, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°30′52″N 71°22′31″W / 41.51444°N 71.37528°W / 41.51444; -71.37528
Built	1786
Part of	Windmill Hill Historic District (ID73000276)
NRHP reference No.	73000276
Added to NRHP	March 7, 1973
Designated CP	October 2, 1978

The Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at the junction of North Road and Weeden Lane in Jamestown, Rhode Island.

The structure was built in 1786 to replace the original meeting house destroyed by the British after they occupied Conanicut Island in 1776. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is included in the Windmill Hill Historic District. It is still used for religious services during the summer. It contains the Old Friends' Burial Ground.

Rear view of the Friends Meeting House
Front view of the Friends Meeting House
Front view of Friends Meeting House with Jamestown Windmill in background

References

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
Harold Wickliffe Rose. The Colonial Houses of Worship in America. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1963, p. 419. “273 Conanicut Friends Meeting House (1786) Conanicut Island, Jamestown County, Rhode Island”

External links

Listing and photographs of the Burial Ground at the Historic American Buildings Survey

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