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Photograph of Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery
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Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in Moore's Mill, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1790 and is a frame building sided with clapboards and wooden shingles.”

Wikipedia article Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Oswego Rd. at jct. with Smith Rd., Moore's Mill, 12540
  • When was it listed? April 1989
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
  • Town. Union Vale town
  • National Register reference number. 89000301 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

147 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Natural25
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery: 22 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialClay, StonePast ProducerChert
Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Granite QuarryGranitePast Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Billings PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bruzgul PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Innisfree4.2 miles2019
LaGrange District School4.3 miles2013
Shear Homestead4.5 miles2021
Newcomb-Brown Estate4.8 miles1988
Lynfeld5.0 miles1987
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery5.2 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000301 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess CountyAll 266 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.