Little Falls Meetinghouse

Historic church in Maryland, United States

United States historic place


Little Falls Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Little Falls Meetinghouse in 1936
39°30′33″N 76°24′23″W / 39.50917°N 76.40639°W / 39.50917; -76.40639
Area	3.4 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1843 (1843)
NRHP reference No.	80001818^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1980

The Little Falls Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Fallston, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1843 and is a sprawling one-story fieldstone structure with shallow-pitched gable roof and a shed-roofed porch. The building replaced an earlier meetinghouse built in 1773. Also on the property is a cemetery and a one-story frame mid-19th century school building, with additions made post-1898 and in 1975. It features the characteristic two entrance doors and a sliding partition dividing the interior into the men's and women's sides.^[2] The Friends currently meet on the former men's side of the meetinghouse, and the women's side is only used for large groups and special occasions.

The Little Falls Meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

Notable people

Elisha Tyson, devoted emancipator and abolitionist
Martha Ellicott Tyson, Quaker elder, author and co-founder of Swarthmore College

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Pamela James and Susan M. Deeney (September 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Little Falls Meetinghouse" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

External links

Little Falls Meetinghouse, Harford County, including photo from 1977, at Maryland Historical Trust
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-516, "Quaker Meetinghouse, Mountain Road, east side, Fallston, Harford County, MD"

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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