Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was built between 1777 and 1782. The meeting house is a two-story, squarish building constructed of fieldstone. Land for the building was given by Able Peters,Town of Clinton An Historical Review , 1959, page 4 whose substantial brick house is the next building on the same side of the road north of the meeting house. In 1828 the Friends Creek Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox meetings. The Orthodox meeting moved about a mile north of Clinton Corners to the Shingle Meeting HouseTown of Clinton An Historical Review , 1959, page 5 located on the grounds of the current Friends Upton Lake Cemetery. The Creek Meeting sold the building to the Upton Lake Grange in 1927 and joined the Bulls Head Meeting in 1936.A Short History of the Oswego Monthly Meeting , page 19 Read more on Wikipedia
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