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Schuylkilll Monthly Meeting started as an indulged meeting set up as Charlestown Indulged Meeting in 1812 by Valley Preparative with the permission of Radnor Monthly. The one-story stone building was erected in 1807 by Enoch Walker as a school and place of worship for traveling Friends and those living in the vicinity. In 1815, Walker … Read moreSchuylkill Monthly Meeting

Sadsbury Meeting was the first meeting created in modern day Lancaster County. It was established first as an indulged meeting in 1723 under New Garden Monthly meeting. About 1725, it became a preparative meeting and built a log meetinghouse. In 1737, it became a monthly meeting under Chester Quarterly. When the Western Quarterly meeting was … Read moreSadsbury Monthly Meeting

In 1756,Reading Preparative Meeting was established by Exeter Monthly Meeting, after having been an indulged meeting since about 1750. Their first meetinghouse was a log structure, which they soon outgrew, having to resort to meeting in the courthouse until land could be purchased. In 1759, the meeting purchased two adjacent lots on 6th street on … Read moreReading Monthly Meeting

An indulged meeting was established in Lancaster in 1753 by Sadsbury Monthly Meeting and a few years later, a meeting house was built on the south side of Queen street. Though other meetings in the area continued to grow and prosper, the Lancaster group did not and in 1802, the meeting was laid down and … Read moreLancaster Friends Meeting