. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Lymmd UWou ////courtesy Perquimans Co. Library Courtesy of Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, Greensboro. NC Friends established Belvidere Academy in 1834. Originally a board'mgschool, the academy became one of Perquimans County's most important educational institutions. Faculty and students of Belvidere Academy are shown in front of the second school buildingcirca 1910. The school operated until 1935, when fire destroyed the building. Up River Friends congregate at their first meeting house,
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Lymmd UWou ////courtesy Perquimans Co. Library Courtesy of Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, Greensboro. NC Friends established Belvidere Academy in 1834. Originally a board'mgschool, the academy became one of Perquimans County's most important educational institutions. Faculty and students of Belvidere Academy are shown in front of the second school buildingcirca 1910. The school operated until 1935, when fire destroyed the building. Up River Friends congregate at their first meeting house, built in 1875. The Piney Woods Meeting founded in 1723, is the oldest continuous Quaker congregation in the state. Detailed records of early Quaker meetings relate that William Edmundson, leader of the Quaker movement in Ireland, held a religious service in Carolina near the present-day town of Hertford in 1672. This meeting is often cited as the first organized religious service in the colony, although historians note this detail is open to debate. The following winter. Fox preached several times in the Perquimans vicinity. The hard-working, humble Quaker ideals appealed to many of the colonists. The Friends soon organized the first Quaker Meeting in Carolina, which remained the colony's only organized religious body until 1701, according to the group's records. /hp Xis . is the season for excess — too much food, too many presents, too many places to be and not enough time to get everything done. But a glimpse of simpler, colonial-era holi- days can be found in the history of the Quakers of northeastern North Carolina, a religious group with early influences in the state. "We get calls every year from people wanting to learn more about a traditional Quaker Christmas," says Gwen Erickson, librarian and archivist of the Friends Collection at Guilford College. "The thing is, there wouldn't have been a ; Colonial Quakers would have put in a full da
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