East Nottingham Meetinghouse, or Brick Meetinghouse, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Rising Sun,

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. It consists of three different sections: the Flemish bond brick section is the oldest, having been built in 1724, by ; the stone addition containing two one-story meeting rooms on the ground floor, each with a corner fireplace at the south corners of the building, and a large youth gallery on the second floor; and in the mid 19th century, a one-story gable roofed structure was added at the southwest corner of the stone section to serve as a women's cloakroom and privy. It is of significance because of its association with William Penn who granted the site "for a Meeting House and Burial Yard, Forever" near the center of the Nottingham Lots settlement and was at one time the largest Friends meeting house south of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Half-Yearly Meeting was held here as early as 1725. During the Revolutionary War, an American Army hospital was established here in 1778 for sick and wounded troops under General William Smallwood's command and the Marquis de Lafayette's troops camped in the Meeting House woods on the first night of their march from the Head of Elk to victory at the

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in 1781. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

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*, including photo from 1979, at Maryland Historical Trust * Quaker meeting houses in Maryland Churches in Cecil County, Maryland Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland Religious buildings and structures completed in 1724 18th-century Quaker meeting houses National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland 1724 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies {{CecilCountyMD-NRHP-stub