Colora Meetinghouse

Colora Meetinghouse
Front view showing the separate men's and women's entrances
Colora Meetinghouse is located in Maryland
Colora Meetinghouse
Colora Meetinghouse is located in the United States
Colora Meetinghouse
LocationCorncake Row, Colora, Maryland
Coordinates39°40′32″N 76°5′56″W / 39.67556°N 76.09889°W / 39.67556; -76.09889
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1841 (1841)
NRHP reference No.77000689[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 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]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Western was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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