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Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies .
The Mount Pleasant Historic District encompasses the historic center of the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Founded in 1803 by anti-slavery Quakers, the village was an early center of abolitionist activity and a well-known haven for fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. The village center is relatively little altered since the ...
Mount Pleasant was laid out in 1803. It was named for its scenic landscape. [4] An early variant name was Jesse-Bobtown. [5] In 1802 [6] Nathan Updegraff of the Pennsylvanian Op den Graeff family settled north in Mount Pleasant. [7] His family belonged to the 19th-century Quaker families of Ohio [8] and produced a lot of Quaker Ministers and ...
Ohio Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House, east of Colerain, Belmont County, Ohio; Green Plain Monthly Meetinghouse, South Charleston, Clark County; Mount Pleasant Friends Meeting House, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County; Wilmington Friends Meeting House, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio [11] Pennsylvania See also Friends meeting houses in ...
Born near Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a descendant of the German and Dutch [1] Op den Graeff family, Jonathan was the son of David Benjamin Updegraff, a Quaker minister, and grandson of Nathan Updegraff, a delegate to Ohio's first constitutional convention. [2]
Sacred Heart of Jesus Church (Bethlehem, Ohio) St. Adalbert Polish Catholic Church; St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Elyria, Ohio) St. Augustine's Catholic Church (Napoleon, Ohio) St. Bernard's Church (Akron, Ohio) St. Elizabeth of Hungary Shrine (Cleveland, Ohio) Saint Francis De Sales Catholic Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)
But parents and activists who’ve mobilized against LifeWise say that busing students to nearby churches, where they sometimes collect prizes and eat candy, has made some non-Christian children ...
David growing up in Winchester, Virginia, but in 1802 [3] he moved with his family to Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio. [4] Like his ancestors he owned a farm. He also served as a minister for the Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1812 he married with Rebecca Taylor Updegraff (1790-1867). She worked as a well-regarded Quaker minister.