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September 5, 2008: Reminiscent of the Cynthia Wiggins lawsuit of 1995, the NFTA is banned by the owners of the Quaker Crossing shopping complex in Orchard Park. Allegations of the ban being racially motivated were denied by the mall owners, who instead cited safety concerns for pedestrians walking in the plaza.
More than one hundred meeting houses constructed before 1900 were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey, and published in Silent Witness: Quaker Meeting Houses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present (2002). [5] Those that were involved in the Underground Railroad have been identified by the Federal NETWORK TO FREEDOM program ...
The centerpiece of the district is the Farmington Friends Meetinghouse, an Orthodox Quaker meetinghouse built in 1876, with a commemorative tablet marking the sites of meetinghouses built in 1796 and 1804, but later demolished. Also in the district is an 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse constructed by the Hicksite Quakers and currently under restoration.
The meeting house design manifested and enhanced Quaker Testimonies and the cultivation of the Inner Light that was essential to Friends. Quakers easily moved from one place of meeting to another, but when given the opportunity to design and construct their own place of meeting, Friends infused their Testimonies in the planning, design, and ...
[3]: 15 By 1751, as many as thirty other Quaker families had migrated to Snow Camp. [3]: 14 During 1751, Quaker Minister Abigail Pike and Rachel Wright traveled to Perquimans County, North Carolina to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Little River, in hopes of gaining permission to establish a new monthly meeting in Cane Creek.
Crossing the Drake Passage is much, much more benign than it used to be thanks to the accuracy of modern forecasting models and stabilizers on more modern cruise ships. This doesn’t mean it’ll ...
The "Quaker City" settlement is one of the earliest resettlements of Quakers into the Massachusetts Colony following their expulsion by the Puritans in the 17th century. Friends Meeting house is a brick, two-story house with a rectangular gabled roof at 479 Quaker Hwy. [ 3 ]
The Quaker Meeting-house on Hester and Elizabeth Streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, was a meetinghouse for the Religious Society of Friends, built in 1818. Recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it "has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company ", now Consolidated Edison.