Dissenter Meeting House and Cemetery

Front

This is the site of a "Dissenter" meeting house, built ca. 1726 by one of the first Baptist congregations in S.C. outside of Charleston. It was founded by Rev. Elisha Screven (d. 1754). The elder Screven had founded a Baptist ...

The First Oblong Friends Meeting House

The First Oblong Friends Meeting House was erected on this site in 1742. It was used as a place of worship until 1764. West of the site was the Friends burial ground.

During the fall and winter of 1778 ...

Oblong Meeting House

Oblong Meeting House

Of the Society of Friends

Erected in 1742 south of this road

Present building erected in 1764

First effective action against slavery

taken here in 1767

Occupied as hospital January 1779

By Revolutionary soldiers

Many of ...

Main Street Meeting House

Built in 1842 following a

theological dispute that led to

a separation between Orthodox

and Hicksite Friends in 1827.

Friends reunited under one

yearly meeting in 1955.

1847-1997

Marker is on S Main Street north of South Street, on the right when traveling north.

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First Moorestown, New Jersey Friends Meeting House

The granite stone behind this plaque marks the location of the first Friends Meeting House. Built of logs in 1700. It was the earliest building for worship in Moorestown.

In 1720, it burned and was replaced with a large stone building ...

1781 Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Baltimore. In 1781, the Patapsco Friends Meeting, formerly located on Harford Road two miles north of the Inner Harbor, moved to this site. In 1784 a group of Quakers established ...

First Meeting House

Near this spot stood the

First

Meeting House

of this

Settlement

1639 –– 1670

Marker is on Temple Street 0.1 miles south of Elm Street, on the right when traveling south.

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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 ...

Jamestown Friends Meeting House and Cemetery

This Quaker place of worship, built by the Mendenhall family around 1819, was used when bad weather made the one-mile trip to Deep River Fiends Meeting House impossible. It is located on its original site, across from Mendenhall Plantation. The ...

County Line Meeting House

Erected Here About 1800.

It was used by all

denominations worshiping

in the vicinity.

Marker is on Mill Point Road, on the left when traveling north.

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