New Bedford Meeting House - Wikipedia
You're using a dark mode gadget that interferes with this feature. Disable the gadget to use dark mode. New Bedford Friends Meeting House, also known as New Bedford Friends Meeting, is a Quaker house of worship in New Bedford, Massachusetts.[2][3] This meeting house has since 1822 been the home to the New Bedford Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); the meeting meets every Sunday at 10:00 a.m.[1] Quakers settled in Dartmouth near Buzzards Bay in the seventeenth century. They were among the first colonial settlers in the area. In the 17th century Dartmouth was a large area that now encompasses Acushnet, Fairhaven, New Bedford, and Westport.[4] Quakers settled where the farmland was most fertile, without establishing a town center. The Apponegansett Meeting House was established in 1699 and expanded three times by 1743. As the membership grew, additional meeting houses were established in Westport and at Allen's Neck.[4] In 1785, a meeting house was built on Spring Stre
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