Centre was established as a monthly meeting under Western Quarterly in 1955. For a better understanding of its history, be sure to follow the link below, Some History of Centre Friends Meeting.
The Mill Creek Friends meetinghouse was built in 1841, thoguh the Friends inthe area had been meeting privately for several year prior to that time.By the early part of the 1900's, meeting attendance had dropped off and by 1930, meetings were only held annually. In 1954 the meeting was re-opened and weekly meetings were resumed.
The burial ground next to the meeting house is documented on the Meeting's website listed below.
If you have Quaker ancestors from New Castle County, Delaware, you may have been aware that many Quaker records have been digitized on Ancestry. What you may not have known is that many of these records have been placed under incorrect headings on the Ancestry site, which can make finding your ancestors a bit of a challenge. I recently found a set of records for the Centre Monthly meeting of New Castle county under Salem county New Jersey!.
As the early records for what would become the Newark Monthly Meeting, indicate that the earliest meetings took place in New Castle, this long-gone meeting was the first forerunner of what would eventually become the Kennett Monthly Meeting.
The first meeting house was built in 1705 and by 1720, a lot had been purchased at Beaver and Otter streets and a burial ground laid out. By 1758, the meeting's members had been transferred to the Wilmington meeting and in 1760, Newark Monthly Meeting was renamed Kennett Monthly Meeting, meeting in Pennsylvania rather than Delaware.
A meeting house for the New Castle meeting had existed on what had been the corner of Pine and Railroad streets, but that building was demolished in1885. The burial ground that had existed nearby has been built over, though Quaker historian, T. C. Matlack, writng in the 30's, stated that the Bethany African Methodist Church had a burial ground next to the location of the former Friends burial ground.
Newark Friends Meeting was established in 1965 by Westsern Quarterly and is not to be confused with the much older meeting known as Newark that became the modern Kennett meeting. In summer months, the Friends of Newark meeting in the London Britain meeting house in CHester County.