Site of First Quaker Meeting House

Quaker Meeting House Town of Wheatland Frame Building 1827 used until 1854 by Hicksites

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.3 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

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National Historic Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

National Historical Landmark-Old Quaker Meeting House

Only surviving example in New York of a typical 17th-century ecclesiastical frame building. Proportions and framing system are prime examples of the survival of medieval techniques.

Used continuously as a meeting house since 1696, except ...

Cedar Creek Quaker Meeting House

English immigrant Thomas Stanley, born about 1670, championed the right to religious freedom early in the 1700s. Stanley gave nearby land for a Quaker meetinghouse, school, and cemetery. Until the 19th century, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) convened here ...

Quaker Meeting House Site

On this site in the 1790s stood one of Philadelphia's five Quaker meeting houses. Here members of the Society of Friends gathered to worship.

The religious freedom guaranteed to those who settled in Pennsylvania attracted not only Quakers, but many ...

Gravelly Run Quaker Meeting House

Quakers began settling the region by the end of the 17th century. Named for nearby Gravelly Run stream, the meetinghouse was built by 1767. It became the religious center for the Quakers in Dinwiddie and surrounding counties. In the early ...

Golansville Quaker Meetinghouse

Pioneers in asserting the right to religious freedom, the Caroline Friends (Quakers) held their first meeting nearby on 12 March 1739 together with their partner, Cedar Creek Friends Meeting of Hanover County. At a meeting on 9 May 1767, members ...

Quaker Meeting House

Panel one:

What is a Quaker?

“I went to many a priest to look for comfort, but found no comfort from them.” — George Fox recounting his spiritual journey in The Journal of George Fox.

George Fox’s frustration led to the establishment ...

Quaker Meeting House

Despite the fugitive slave laws that prohibited harboring runaway slaves, fugitives found refuge in the Quaker village of Chesterfield, now Chesterhill. Legend tells that no runaway slaves were ever captured here, although many were hidden and helped on their way ...

Quaker Meeting House

Site acquired by Quakers in 1733. Present meeting house rebuilt with original stone in 1862.

Marker is on County Route 579, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Quaker Meeting House

In the mid-18th century, members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) settled in the Lynchburg area, initially worshiping in one another's houses. According to local tradition, the first meetinghouse was constructed here of logs in 1757 and enlarged in ...