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 whom are buried south of the road

Meeting divided 1828

Meetings ceased in this house 1885

Anno Domeni 1904

Marker is at the intersection of Meeting House Road and Quaker Hill Road (County Route 66), on the left when traveling east on Meeting House Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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