Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard

Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard is a cemetery in Town of North Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island. Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard is situated nearby to Six Principle Baptist Church, as well as near the neighborhood Lafayette.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Six Principle Baptist Church and Wickford Junction station.

Six Principle Baptist Church

Church

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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.

Wickford Junction station

Railway station

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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 1 mile south of Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard.

Davisville Free Library

Library

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Davisville Free Library is situated 2 miles northeast of Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lafayette and Wickford.

Lafayette

Neighborhood

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Lafayette Village is a historic district extending along Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. It encompasses a linear rural and industrial village, running from the Wickford Junction railroad crossing in the west to Angel Avenue in the east, and includes a number of residential properties on adjacent side streets. Lafayette is situated 1½ miles southeast of Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard.

Wickford

Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Exeter

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Old Baptist Meetinghouse Yard

Type: Cemetery
Also known as: “Old Baptist Cemetery”
Category: burial
Location: Town of North Kingstown, South County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.59299° or 41° 35′ 35″ north

Longitude

-71.49098° or 71° 29′ 28″ west

Elevation

89 feet (27 metres)

Open location code

87HCHGV5+5J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 317937626

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

GeoNames ID

5223752

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