The Harmony Chapel and Cemetery (also known as "Harmony Meeting House" or "Harmony Cemetery") are a historic church and

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

Harmony, Rhode Island Harmony is a village and census-designated place in Providence County, Rhode Island, in the town of Glocester, located on U.S. Route 44 (Putnam Pike). As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 985. Local sites and history The historic 1816 H ...

, a village in Glocester.

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The wood-frame chapel adjacent to the cemetery sits on

US Route 44 U.S. Route 44 (US 44) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs for through four states in the Northeastern United States. The western terminus is at US 209 and New York State Route 55 (NY 55) in Kerhonkson, ...

west of Edgewood Drive. Built as a schoolhouse in c. 1830, it is one of the few Federal-style schoolhouses to survive in the state, and is probably the best-preserved of that period. It was later (by 1870) converted for use as a

meeting house A meeting house (meetinghouse, meeting-house) is a building where religious and sometimes public meetings take place. Terminology Nonconformist Protestant denominations distinguish between a * church, which is a body of people who believe in Chr ...

(free chapel) for villagers. Residents would occasionally hire

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to speak and hold various Christian religious ceremonies. The cemetery behind the chapel was used as a private cemetery by the Steere, Smith and other local families until opened for public use in 1878. Harmony Chapel

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Friends of Harmony Village information and pictures of the chapel

* * * {{National Register of Historic Places Churches completed in 1816 Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Churches in Providence County, Rhode Island Chapels in the United States Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Buildings and structures in Glocester, Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island 1816 establishments in Rhode Island

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