{"nrhp_refnum":"07000384","name":"Farmington Quaker Crossroads Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Cty Rd. 8 at Sheldon Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Farmington","county":"Ontario County","state":"NY","lat":43.02764766800004,"lon":-77.32115025899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads historic district of about 30 acres at County Road 8 and Sheldon Road in Farmington, Ontario County, New York, centered on Quaker meetinghouses, a church and a cemetery dating from 1796 to 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is nationally significant because Farmington Quakers who worshipped and were buried here led national reform movements: protection of Native American sovereignty, woman's rights, and abolitionism with the Underground Railroad. It is also locally significant as an intact rural crossroads with notable Quaker architecture and cemetery design in an unaltered agricultural setting. The 1816 meetinghouse hosted the 1848 founding of the Congregational Friends.","narrative":"At the crossroads of County Road 8 and Sheldon Road in Farmington, New York, a cluster of Quaker buildings and a burying ground records more than a century of religious life. Friends built a double log meetinghouse here in 1796, replaced it with a frame building in 1804, and raised a much larger meetinghouse in 1816 across the road. After the 1827 split between Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers, the 1816 building became the Hicksite meetinghouse, while Orthodox Friends later built the present 1876 frame church. A cemetery with about 670 known graves, including freedom seekers, surrounds the church. The 1816 meetinghouse was sold in 1927, moved 325 feet north and used to store celery. The district is considered significant because local Quakers took part in national movements for Native American sovereignty, woman's rights and abolition, and because the Congregational Friends formed in the 1816 building in 1848. A granite and bronze tablet from 1929 marks the earlier meetinghouse sites.","period_of_significance":"1796-1929","architect_builder":"unknown (1816); D.C. Brundage (1876)","architectural_style":"Early Republic; Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 1816 meetinghouse was in poor condition by 2005 and lost its east wall in a February 2007 windstorm. It was then donated to a foundation, stabilized and covered with a net while restoration plans developed. The 1876 church and cemetery remain in religious and funerary use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.752723-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000384.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314131","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_Quaker_Crossroads_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5435907"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ontario-county/farmington-quaker-crossroads-historic-district-07000384/"}