Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Little Compton

Name: Friends Meeting House and Cemetery
Address: Little Compton, United States

#5 among attractions in Little Compton

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Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Little Compton

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The Friends Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery at 228A W. Main Road in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The meeting house is a two-story wood-frame structure built in 1815 by the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, on the site of their first meeting house built in 1700 on land granted to John Irish. The new meeting house used some materials from the original one. It was then modified in 1870. ()

Built: 1815 (209 years ago)Coordinates: 41°31'33"N, 71°11'38"W

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Little Compton United States

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Friends Meeting House and Cemetery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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Nature and wildlife, Museum, Park
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