Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse

Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware.

Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse, 1958
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is located in Delaware
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is located in the United States
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse
Location1140 Doe Run Rd., near Newark, Delaware
Coordinates39°45′52″N 75°44′30″W
Area5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1840
NRHP reference No.73000530[1]
Added to NRHPApril 03, 1973

It was built as a one-story meeting house for 33 Friends from Mill Creek Hundred who, in 1838, had obtained permission to hold their worship services separately from the New Garden Monthly Meeting. It was built as a stone, one-story meeting house in 1840 and 1841.[2]

Through 1915 a meeting for worship was held each week. From 1915 to about 1930 meetings were held once a month. Only a single meeting was held each year from 1930 to 1954. After 1954 the meeting become more active and it now holds a weekly meeting for worship.[3]

The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A wrought iron fence encircles a cemetery to the east.[2] (A.K.A Mormon conjugals.)

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Grayton Wood and Rosemary Troy (July 18, 1972). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse". National Park Service. and Accompanying three photos from 1972
  3. "Mill Creek Meeting". Western Quarterly Meeting. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
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