Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is located on Emans Road in LaGrangeville, New York, United States. The meeting house is a wooden building from the early 19th century that has been unused and vacant for decades.”
Wikipedia article Beekman 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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Emans Rd., LeGrangeville, 12540
When was it listed? April 1989
Category. building
Also known as. Dutchess County Quaker Meeting Houses TR
Town. LaGrange town
National Register reference number. 89000303 - 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 Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, surveyed 1993

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

Fires near this property

258 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined	122
Natural	36
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	25
Smoking	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery: 37 past producers, 8 producers. 8 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Clay, Stone	Past Producer	Chert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Beekman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Beekman Town Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Billings Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bruzgul Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Pleasant Valley quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Shear Homestead	1.4 miles	2021
Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House	2.4 miles	2008
Haxtun-Tower House	3.2 miles	2016
Bykenhulle	3.4 miles	1991
LaGrange District School	3.6 miles	2013
Murphy Grist Mill	3.7 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000303 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 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.