Springfield Friends Meeting House
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Springfield Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house at 1001 Old Sproul Road in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The Quakers who settled in Springfield founded a society of Friends in 1686. The first meetinghouse built in Springfield was in 1703 and was destroyed by fire in 1737.[1] The building was rumored to be made of stone but was more likely a log building. The construction of a new meetinghouse began in 1738 and was a stone building and functioned as the meetinghouse for 113 years until replaced by the current structure in 1850.[2]
The Springfield Friends meetinghouse is still an active worship center.[3] The Peace Center of Delaware County also operates out of the meetinghouse.[4]
Notable burials[]
- Edward Mifflin, Pennsylvania State Representative
References[]
- ^ Jordan, John W. (1912). A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Its People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 397. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ Ashmeade, Henry Graham (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. pp. 716-717. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ "Springfield Friends Meeting". fgcquakercloud.org. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
- ^ "Peace Center of Delaware County". delcopeacecenter.org. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
Coordinates: 39°56′29″N 75°20′55″W / 39.941359°N 75.348524°W
- 1850 establishments in Pennsylvania
- 19th-century Quaker meeting houses
- Cemeteries in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Churches completed in 1850
- Churches in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania