Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic

Friends meeting house A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ...

located at Darlington, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one-story fieldstone structure, six bays long on the south, four bays on the north, and three bays wide. It was constructed in 1784 to replace a building of 1737 and renovated in 1888. The interior is divided into two spaces by an original paneled partition and the benches are original, with 10 benches in each room and an aisle down the center. The property also includes a five-stall horse shed and a cemetery with burials dating from 1775 to 1930. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1980.

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*, including photo from 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust Quaker meeting houses in Maryland Churches in Harford County, Maryland Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Churches completed in 1784 18th-century Quaker meeting houses National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland {{HarfordCountyMD-NRHP-stub