Woodbury Quaker Friends Meeting House
The Woodbury Friends’ Meeting house was built in two stages, in 1715 and 1785. The meetinghouse has served Quakers in Woodbury since its construction, and stands as a reminder of the town’s Quaker founding in 1683 by Henry Wood. For the town’s first 100 years, it existed mainly as a rural, farming community. The British, led by General Cornwallis, camped in Woodbury during the Revolutionary War and used the Meetinghouse as a barracks and a field hospital. After the war, many Quakers remained but the nature of the town slowly changed into a urban (industrial and trading) center.