Briggs Cemetery
Briggs Cemetery is a cemetery in Town of North Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island. Briggs Cemetery is situated nearby to the neighborhood Lafayette.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Six Principle Baptist Church and New England Wireless and Steam Museum.
Six Principle Baptist Church
Church
Stony Lane Six Principle Baptist Church, also known as the Old Baptist Meeting House, is a historic church in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. As of 2009 it was one of the last surviving historical congregations of the Six Principle Baptist denomination and one of the oldest churches in the United States. Six Principle Baptist Church is situated 1½ miles east of Briggs Cemetery.
New England Wireless and Steam Museum
Museum
The New England Wireless and Steam Museum is an electrical and mechanical engineering museum at 1300 Frenchtown Road in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, with working steam engines and an early wireless station and technology archives. New England Wireless and Steam Museum is situated 2 miles north of Briggs Cemetery.
Wickford Junction station
Railway station
Wickford Junction station is a commuter rail station located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States. It is the southern terminus of the MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line and serves as a park and ride location for commuters to Providence and Boston. Wickford Junction station is situated 2 miles southeast of Briggs Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Exeter and Lafayette.
Exeter
Exeter is a small, spread-out town in southwestern Rhode Island. Exeter is noted by folklorists as the site of one of the best documented examples of vampire exhumation: the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of 1892.Lafayette
Neighborhood
Wickford
Wickford is a small village and seaport in North Kingstown that seems to keep its historical charm despite being a tourist attraction. The tides lap its grounded shores and echo a story of its distinguished past.Briggs Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Also known as: “North Kingstown Historical Cemetery Number 52”
- Category: burial
- Location: Town of North Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.59765° or 41° 35′ 52″ north
Longitude
-71.52013° or 71° 31′ 13″ west
Elevation
315 feet (96 metres)
Open location code
87HCHFXH+3W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
GeoNames ID
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