Warrington Friends Meeting

An indulged meeting was first set  up in the Wellsville area of York County about 1730 under the care of Sadsbury Preparative and in 1747, it was set up by Chester Quarterly as a Monthly meeting, with Warrington and Newberry meetings being its members. First meeting in the home of William Garretson, the first meeting house, built of logs, was erected in 1745. The meeting became part of Western Quarterly in 1758 and then Warrignton-Fairfax Quarter when that body was established in 1776. By that time the meeting had outgrown both its first log meetinghouse and the second log meeting house that followed it, and a new meetinghouse was built in 1769. It would eb enlarged yet again in 1782.

In 1787 the Warrington-Fairfax Qaurterly was divided in to two meetings, and the Warrington meeting was added to Warrington Quarter and was transferred with that quarter to baltimore yearly Meeting in 1789.

By the time of the civil war, the attendance of the meeting had ddropped considerably and in 1862 the meeting was laid down and its members transferred to MenallenMeeting. Nearly a hundred years later, in 1945, Quakers in the area were interested in utilizing the old meetinghouse for a newly formed meeting and the Warrington Meeting was re-established and became part of Warrington Quarterly Meeting.