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Quaker Meeting House Review
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Quaker Meeting House
- Address: 58 N. Main St., South Yarmouth, MA | Map It
- Phone: 508/398-3773
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Yarmouth
Fodor's Review:
South Yarmouth was once known as Quaker Village for the large numbers of Quakers who settled the area in the 1770s after a smallpox epidemic wiped out the local Native American population. The 1809 Quaker Meeting House is still open for services. Two separate entrance doors and the partition down the center were meant to divide the sexes. The adjacent cemetery has simple markers with no epitaphs, an expression of the Friends' belief that all are equal in God's eyes. Behind the cemetery is a circa-1830 one-room Quaker schoolhouse.
- Open: Services Sun. at 10
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