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Friends (Old Quaker) Meeting House & Maple Street Cemetery (berkshires)

Posted on: Thursday, 11 March, 2010  11:57
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Friends (Old Quaker) Meeting House & Maple Street Cemetery
Corner of Friend and Maple Streets in Adams, MA
413-743-1799 * www.berkshireweb.com/quakers/index.html

The Quakers or “Friends” as they called themselves, were a religious denomination who came from the Smithfield, Rhode Island area. They were the first group of settlers to form a community in East Hoosuck, the original name of the Adams Township. They lived in Adams for 15 years before starting to build the meeting house in 1782. They finished it four years later. The meeting house, like many Quakers homes, was built with very little ornamentation and left unpainted. The Quakers community in Adams reached its peak in 1819 when a total of 40 families were members of the Friends Meeting. There was steady decline after that date and in 1842 the Society of Friends held its last official meeting in the old meeting house.

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