Newberry Friends Meeting

The meeting house in Newberrytown that once hosted the Friends meeting has been a private residence for over two hundred years now, but it is still possible to see that it was once a Quaker meeting house. The simple structure complete with two front doorways shows the typical design of an old Pennsylvania meeting house.

The Newberry meeting was first set up as an indulged meetign in 1734 by Sadsbury and in 1738 became a preparative meeting. Until 1745, when the first meeting house was built of logs, the meetings were held in the homes of the members. A small graveyard located across the street from the original meeting site is probably the oldest Quaker burial ground west of the Susquehanna. The meeting house shown in the picture was built in 1792 but it was abandoned in 1811 when the meeting moved further west and erected the meeting house that would become known as Redlands.