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Title	Quaker Meeting House
Subject	Religion in Ohio Quakers Society of Friends Religious facilities National Register of Historic Places
Place	Mount Pleasant (Ohio) Jefferson County (Ohio)
Description	The Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio was built in 1814 for the Ohio Yearly Meeting. This was the first yearly meeting house built west of the Alleghenies. This meeting was composed of quarterly meetings from Ohio as well as Pennsylvania and the Indiana Territory. The meeting house holds 2,000 persons and contains a mechanism that allowed a partition to be raised and lowered. The partition was used to separate men and women during some special meetings. The final yearly meeting was held at the meeting house in 1909. The Quakers of Mount Pleasant were well-known for their abolitionist activities. As early as the 1810s, there are reports that the Quakers were assisting escaped slaves. In 1817, Charles Osborn began publishing the Philanthropist, which is regarded as the first anti-slavery newspaper in the nation.
Date of Original	1814
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
Submitting Institution	Quaker Meeting House
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om712_1008540_002
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om712_1008540_002.tif
Image Height	1498
Image Width	1639
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