Springfield Friends Meeting House
.jpg){kind=link}
The Springfield Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house that is located at 1001 Old Sproul Road in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
History and notable features
[edit | edit source]The Quakers who settled in Springfield founded a society of Friends in 1686. The first meetinghouse built here was erected in 1703 but was then destroyed by fire in 1737.[1] That original building may have been built using stone but was more likely a log structure.
The construction of a new meetinghouse began in 1738. A stone building, it functioned as the meetinghouse for 113 years; it was then replaced in 1850 by a new structure that still stands today and is still an active worship center.[2][3]
The Peace Center of Delaware County also operates out of the meetinghouse.[4]
Notable burials
[edit | edit source]- Edward Mifflin (1923–1971), Pennsylvania State Representative
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).