Harmony Chapel and Cemetery - Harmony RI - Cemetery Chapels on Waymarking.com

The wood-frame chapel adjacent to the cemetery sits on US Route 44 west of Edgewood Drive. Built as a schoolhouse in c. 1830, it is one of the few Federal-style schoolhouses to survive in the state, and is probably the best-preserved of that period. It was later (by 1870) converted for use as a meeting house (free chapel) for villagers. Residents would occasionally hire ministers to speak and hold various Christian religious ceremonies.
The cemetery behind the chapel was used as a private cemetery by the Steere, Smith and other local families until opened for public use in 1878.

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The cemetery, laidout over a period of years, follows an
irregular rectangular grid.. The original. portion , was recorded on a plat drawn in 1878. The cemetery, while not of any particular artistic merit, is of interest, too, for the mirror it holds up to nineteenth-century social history - The concern with more public burials tthan the traditional family plot could provide was a typical mid-nineteenth century concern and the burial yard here in the hamlet of Harmony was established at least as early as 1857.

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Cemetery is also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Glocester #35

Date of Chapel Construction: 1830 Active Chapel?: yes Main Construction Material of Chapel: Wood Description of Cemetery added in Long Description: yes Denomination of Chapel or Cemetery (if applicable): Not listed

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