Month: January 2020
Valley Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Also sometimes known as Chester Valley Friends Meeting, the meeting hose was built in 1731. The burial ground for Valley Friends is located just up the road on the other side of the street.
Uwchlan Friends Meeting (Quaker)
The Uwchlan meetinghouse was built in 1756 and was the home of the Hicksite branch of the Uwchlan meeting after the Separation. In 1883, it was merged with Bradford Monthly meeting to become the Bradford-Uwchlan Monthly meeting and was discontinued in 1901, its members transferred to Sadsbury Monthly Meeting. It is now owned by a …
Schuylkill Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Originally named Charlestown meeting, Schuylkill meeting’s burial ground lies behind the meetinghouse.
Romansville Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Originally established by the Hicksite branch as a continuation of the original Bradford Preparative, this meeting was renamed when it moved to Romansville in 1846. At that time, a red brick meeting house was built and a burial ground laid out. In 1877, the meeting requested to be laid down, and it was re-established as …
Penns Grove Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Set up in 1829 by New Garden Monthly after having been an indulged meeting since 1820. Early meetings were held at the home of John Hambleton until March 1828 and than at the home of Samuel and Phebe Hadley for about 9 months. After that, meetings were held in a small log building on Hadley’s …
Parkersville Friends Meeting (Quaker)
After the Separation of the original Kennett Preparative meeting, the Orthodox branch built a meeting house in 1830 in Parkersville on land purchased from John Parker. The meeting was held here until 1931 at which time it was laid down by Kennett Monthly. The meetinghouse is under the care of Western Quarterly. There is currently …
Old Kennett Meeting (Quaker)
Set up in 1711 by Newark Monthly (later Kennett Monthly) after having been an indulged meeting since 1707. Members met in homes until the first meeting house. a two-story stone building, was built in 1710. Continued after the Separation after the division of the original Kennett Preparative, the property of which was retained by the …
Old Caln Friends Meeting (Quaker)
The meeting was first set up in 1716 by Concord Monthly and an acre of ground for a meeting house and burial ground was purchased from John Mendenhall, at the edge of the “old Pim place at the foot of the hill”. Meetings were held there until 1726, when 4 acres of land were purchased …
Nottingham Friends Meeting (Quaker)
Set up as an indulged meeting known as Oxford Indulged by Pennsgrove Monthly in 1876 and transferred to Nottingham Monthly in 1883, at which time it became a preparative meeting. The red stone meeting house was built in 1879. The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1927 and it became an indulged meeting again. In 1937, …