National Register of Historic Places

Friends Spring Meeting House

Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina
Listed
March 19, 1987
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
87000456

About this property

Friends Spring Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located in Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina. The fourth and present meeting house, built in 1907, is a small, rectangular, one-story, gable-front frame building. It features Gothic Revival-style lancet windows and a short, plain rectangular cupola with a pyramidal roof. Friends Spring Meeting remains an active congregation of Quakers from the Alamance, Chatham County, Orange County, Guilford County, and Randolph County area of North Carolina. Members of the Religious Society of Friends began “meeting at the spring” around 1761, and the congregation was formally recognized by the North Carolina Yearly Meeting in 1773. The adjacent contributing cemetery dates to about 1761, at the founding of the meeting. It contains graves of some of the earliest Quaker settlers in Alamance County, as well as unmarked graves of approximately 25 American Revolutionary War soldiers killed in the 1781 Battle of Lindley's Mill. The battle was fought around the meeting house, and Governor Thomas Burke and other officials were held prisoner in the original building during the engagement. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Location

Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina
35.90202, -79.32586

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When was Friends Spring Meeting House listed on the National Register?

Friends Spring Meeting House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 19, 1987.

What type of historic resource is Friends Spring Meeting House?

Friends Spring Meeting House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Friends Spring Meeting House is recorded as the industrial era.

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