Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & Cemetery

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caption = Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & Cemetery
location= Woonsocket, Rhode Island
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 59
lat_seconds = 21
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 31
long_seconds = 49
long_direction = W
locmapin = Rhode Island
area =
built =1719
architect= Fountain,John B.
architecture= Greek Revival
added = November 24, 1982
governing_body = Private
mpsub=Woonsocket MRA
refnum=82000008cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage & Cemetery, built in 1881 is located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and is home to one of the oldest Quaker communities in the area.

Rhode Island provided a home to many Quaker refugees in the 17th century and in the early 18th century a group of "Friends" started this congregation. Their original Meeting House, built in 1719, was connected to a chain of Quaker Meeting Houses that were built along Great Road (near Union Village and Smithfield Road Historic District). It was destroyed by fire in 1881 and replaced by the current structure.

References and external links

*Nebiker, Walter (1976). "the History of North Smithfield". Somersworth, NH: New England History Press.
* [http://www.woonsocket.org/nationalregister.html Woonsocket National Register sites]

See also

* List of Registered Historic Places in Rhode Island