Colora Meetinghouse | |
Front view showing the separate men's and women's entrances | |
Location | Corncake Row, Colora, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°40′32″N 76°5′56″W / 39.67556°N 76.09889°W |
Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
Built | 1841 |
NRHP reference No. | 77000689[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 22, 1977 |
The Colora Meetinghouse is a historic Friends (or Quaker) meeting house located at Colora, Cecil County, Maryland, United States.
The meeting house was built in 1841 as part of a larger dispute known as the "great separation." The original members of the Colora Meeting, then called the Nottingham Preparative Meeting, sided with the orthodox Friends splitting off from the Hicksite West Nottingham Friends Meeting. The new meeting was first part of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. In 1854 it formed the Primitive Yearly Meeting with several nearby meetings and in 1890 became part of the Western Quarterly Meeting.[2]
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