- Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse
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Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse
Nearest city: Newark, Delaware Coordinates: 39°45′59″N 75°44′30″W / 39.76639°N 75.74167°WCoordinates: 39°45′59″N 75°44′30″W / 39.76639°N 75.74167°W Area: 5 acres (2.0 ha) Built: 1840 Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 73000530[1] Added to NRHP: April 03, 1973 Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house in Newark, Delaware.
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]
The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A wrought iron fence encircles a cemetery to the east.[2]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b Grayton Wood and Rosemary Troy (July 18, 1972). "NRHP Inventory-Nomination: Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse". National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/73000530.pdf. and Accompanying three photos from 1972
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- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Religious buildings completed in 1841
- 19th-century Quaker meetinghouses
- Churches in New Castle County, Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs
- Quakerism stubs
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