Radnor Friends Meetinghouse

Radnor Friends Meetinghouse
Radnor Friends Meetinghouse, November 2009
Location Sproul and Conestoga Rds., Ithan, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°1′48″N 75°21′53″W / 40.03000°N 75.36472°W / 40.03000; -75.36472Coordinates: 40°1′48″N 75°21′53″W / 40.03000°N 75.36472°W / 40.03000; -75.36472
Area 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built 1717
NRHP reference # 78002393[1]
Added to NRHP August 31, 1978

Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

In 1686, there were sufficient number of Friends in Radnor township to begin meetings at the house of John Jerman, a Quaker minister.[2] The current meeting house was built in 1717 with an addition made several years later. An earlier meeting house existed on the site as early as 1693.[3] During the Revolutionary War, the meeting house was used as an outpost for General George Washington's Continental Army.[4]

The meeting house added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

Worship services are held weekly at 10am.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Jordan, John W. (1912). A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Its People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 397. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Ashmeade, Henry Graham (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. p. 687. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Elisabeth Donaghy and Bud Wolf (May 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Radnor Friends Meetinghouse" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-06.

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