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Schuylkill Friends Meeting House

Schuylkill Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located on North Whitehorse Road in the Schuylkill Township section of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. This Meeting House is 2.5 miles west of the Valley Forge Post Office.

Originally Charlestown Friends Meeting, the name was changed in 1826 when Charlestown Township was split.[1]

Chester County Archive road dockets indicate there was a Meeting House in 1802. The east (Worship) room was completed in 1816.[2] [3] [4]

Schuylkill Friends Meeting for Worship is every Sunday at 10:00 am. It is part of the Caln Quarterly Meeting of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

References

  1. ↑ Rees, Harman (2011). Historical Sketches of Charlestown Township. Charlestown Township, Pennsylvania: Charlestown Historical Society. p. 1 of Chapter 5. ISBN 978-0-615-52002-5.
  2. ↑ Rees, Harman (2011). Historical Sketches of Charlestown Township. Charlestown Historical Society. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-615-52002-5.
  3. ↑ Pennypacker, Sarah (November 27, 1909). "Schuylkill Meeting". Friends Intelligencer. 44 (51): 757.
  4. ↑ Inventory of Church Archives: Society of Friends in Pennsylvania-Prepared by the Pennsylvania Historical Survey Division of Community Service Programs Work Projects Administration. Friends' Historical Association. 1941. p. 74.


Further reading

• A Retrospect of Early Quakerism 1860 by Ezra Michener pg 62
• Schuylkill Friends Meeting Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Deposited in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College & Haverford College Quaker Collection.
• Annals of Phoenixville and Its Vicinity 1872 by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
• Chester County Archives & Record Services

• Official website
• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
• Friends General Conference


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