Friends Meetinghouse

The Hoover family worshipped in this building along with neighbors and relatives who were members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers as they are often called. West Branch was predominately a Quaker community in the 1850's when this ...

First Meetinghouse

1630-1930

Site of the first meetinghouse built

on the open green in 1640. The bell, hung in 1642, is said to have been brought from England by order of the Reverend William Worcester, who settled here in 1639.

Marker is at the ...

Lexington Meeting Houses

Site of the first three

Meeting Houses in Lexington

I

Built 1692, when the town

was a parish of Cambridge:

II

Built 1713, on the

Incorporation of Lexington:

III

Built 1794: Burned, 1846.

This spot is thus identified with

the town’s history for 50 years.

Back of Marker:

Pastorates:

Benjamin Estabrook, 1692-1697.

John Hancock, 1698 ...

Old South Meeting House

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

this site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating or illustrating

the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1964

Marker is at the intersection of Washington ...

Horsham Friends Meeting Meeting House

Built 1803

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Easton Road (Pennsylvania Route 611) and Meetinghouse Road, on the right when traveling north on Easton Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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 ...

Cane Ridge Meeting House

Built by Presbyterians, 1791. Here Barton W. Stone began his ministry, 1796. Famous revival attended by pioneers of many faiths, 1801. Springfield Presbytery dissolved and "Christian Church" launched, June 28, 1804.

Marker is at the intersection of Cane Ridge Road (Kentucky ...

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 ...

Black Mingo Presbyterian Meeting House

[Front]:

One of the earliest Dissenter congregations in South Carolina north of the Santee River was located about two miles south of here. Its church building had been completed by 1727 when the Rev. Thomas Morritt, Episcopal minister of Charleston, visited ...

White Bluff Meeting House

Here meets the oldest congregation following the Reformed (Calvinistic) theological tradition in continuous service in Georgia. In 1737, 160 Reformed Germans came to Savannah seeking religious freedom. After working their terms as indentured servants the colonists petitioned the Trustees of ...