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Bradford Friends Meetinghouse, also known as Marshallton Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Marshallton in West Bradford Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1764–1765, and is a one-story, stone structure with a gable roof. A porch was added to two sides of the building in the 19th century.
Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [ a ] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [ 3 ] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as ...
The Harrisburg City Council is the legislative branch of the city government of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and consists of seven members elected at-large. [1] The council president is elected by the council members and presides over city council meetings. In the event of illness or absence of the president, the vice president presides over the ...
The first mention of the Providence Friends meeting was in 1696 when it was recorded that a meeting will be held "At Thomas Minshall's every First and Fourth day." [ 2 ] The meeting was moved from Thomas Minshall's house in 1700 to a log building which was replaced by a stone structure in 1727.
Representative town meeting is used by some larger towns, where voters elect representatives to participate in town meetings, similar to a town council. Some towns use a financial town meeting form where an open town meeting exists with limited jurisdiction to vote solely on financial affairs while the town's legislative powers have been vested ...
The Luzerne County Council is the governing body of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The council meets at the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre. There are eleven members on the assembly (seven Republicans and four Democrats). The chair is both the highest-ranking officer on the council and the head of county government for ceremonial ...
Chester Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house at 520 East 24th Street in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The first recorded meeting of Friends in the province of Pennsylvania was in Chester at the house of Robert Wade in 1675. [1] William Edmundson, the founder of Quakerism in Ireland was present at the first ...
The Buckingham Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 5684 Lower York Road (U.S. Route 202) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1768 in a "doubled" style, it is nationally significant as a model for many subsequent Friends Meeting Houses. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. [3] [4]