Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic

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located at Union Bridge, Carroll County,

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. It is a -story brick structure in

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on a stone foundation. The meetinghouse was begun in 1771 and completed the next year. A fire in October 1934 destroyed the interior, but the original benches were saved. The founders of the meetinghouse were

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from the north of Ireland. It was the

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meetinghouse attended by a great-grandfather of President

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. The Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse was listed on the

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in 1976.

References

External links

*, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust
Pipe Creek Friends homepage
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