Old Friends Burial Ground
Old Friends Burial Ground is a cemetery in Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island. Old Friends Burial Ground is situated nearby to the village Saunderstown.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Jamestown, Rhode Island
- Also known as: “Friend’s Burial Ground”, “Friends Cemetery”, “Jamestown Historical Cemetery Number 6”, and “Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Jamestown #6”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plum Beach Lighthouse and Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge.
Plum Beach Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plum Beach Light, built in 1899, is a sparkplug lighthouse in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was built using pneumatic caisson engineering. Plum Beach Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles west of Old Friends Burial Ground.
Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Juliancolton, Public domain.
The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is a concrete box girder highway bridge which spans the West Passage of Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. It is part of Rhode Island Route 138 and is on the route to Newport, Rhode Island for traffic heading northbound from Interstate 95. Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge is situated 1 mile west of Old Friends Burial Ground.
Friends Meetinghouse
Church
Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at the junction of North Road and Weeden Lane in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The structure was built in 1786 to replace the original meeting house destroyed by the British after they occupied Conanicut Island in 1776. Friends Meetinghouse is situated 1 mile southeast of Old Friends Burial Ground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saunderstown and Newport.
Saunderstown
Village
Photo: Gibbystuart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saunderstown is a small village and historic district spread across the four towns of Narragansett, South Kingstown, Exeter and North Kingstown in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. Saunderstown is situated 2½ miles southwest of Old Friends Burial Ground.
Newport
Newport is a beautiful seaside city in Rhode Island that is famous for its genteel mansions and a rich history of yachting, golf, and tennis. With a population of only 25,000, this scenic resort town punches well above its weight and was known as the "Summer White House" throughout the 1950s and 60s.
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.
Old Friends Burial Ground
- Category: burial
- Location: Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.52627° or 41° 31′ 35″ northLongitude
-71.3833° or 71° 22′ 60″ westElevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
87HCGJG8+GMOpenStreetMap ID
way 829669998OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryGeoNames ID
5223763Wikidata ID
Q105104963
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