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Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House in Wilmington was erected between 1815 and 1817. Like many Quaker congregations, members of the Wilmington Meeting House were active in the Underground Railroad. In 1787, Delaware passed a law prohibiting the importation and exportation ...

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Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House

The Appoquinimink Friends Meetings House, erected in 1783, is located in a community where a strong Quaker antislavery movement existed. The Meeting House is associated with John Hunn (1818-1894) and John Alston (1794-1874), two Underground Railroad "station masters" who ...

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Friends Log Meeting House

Surrounded by Burgoyne's Indian allies in 1777 but finding Friends unarmed stacked arms and attended meeting peaceably.

Marker is on Meeting House Road just east of Hoag Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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National Historic Landmark - Merion Friends Meeting House

National Historic Landmark - Merion Friends Meeting House

Merion Friends Meeting House is the building most closely associated with the Merioneth Adventurers, a group of Welsh Quakers who came to Pennsylvania in 1682.

The earliest known migration of Celtic-speaking Welsh ...

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National Historic Landmark-Buckingham Friends Meeting House

National Historic Landmark- Buckingham Friends Meeting House

Buckingham Friends Meeting House is nationally significant for its role in providing a model for the development of the American Friends? meeting house. Built in 1768, Buckingham was the first meeting house to be ...

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Great Friends Meeting House

In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport’s European settlers ...

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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 ...

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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

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The Friends School at Birmingham Meeting House

Was established at this place about 1753. It was for many years under the care of John Forsythe, the First Head Master of Westtown Boarding School opened in 1799. Dr. William Darlington was a pupil at Birmingham.

Marker is on ...

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Evesham Friends Meeting House

Oldest Friends Meeting House

in Burlington County – Used

as barracks for General Clinton’s

troops in June 1778

Built 1760 Addition 1798

Marker is at the intersection of Moorestown - Mount Laurel Road and Hainesport Road, on the left when traveling east on Moorestown - ...

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