Drumore Quakers' precious habitation

Description:

Built in 1816, the Drumore Quaker meetinghouse in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was home to the Drumore Friends Meeting for 120 years. Quakers moved to the area at the turn of the 19th century and became part of Little Britain Monthy Meeting. Many of its members were active in the Underground Railroad at mid-century, as were other Quakers thoughtout Lancaster County and elsewhere. By the early 20th century the meeting was in decline, but members who were concerned about the preservation of the meetinghouse and cemetery formed the Drumore Cemetery Association. Many of those Friends are pictured below at the time of the meeting's 1916 centennial. The association has faithfully maintained the property and in 2016 is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the building of the meetinghouse and the establishing of the cemetery.

subjects: History,  Church records and registers,  Cemeteries,  Slavery and the church,  Society of Friends,  Antislavery movements,  Underground Railroad,  Columbia Friends Meeting,  Lampeter Friends Meeting,  Lancaster Friends Meeting,  Bart Friends Meeting,  Lancaster Friends Meeting #2,  Penn Hill (Little Britain) Friends,  Eastland Friends Meeting,  Drumore Friends Meeting,  East Britain Friends Meeting (Ashville Meetinghouse),  Ballance Friends Meeting (Orthodox/Wilburite)

People: R. C. Smedley,  Willilam Wright,  Hanna Gibbons,  Daniel Gibbons,  Thomas Whitson,  Lindley Coates,  William Rakestraw,  Sadsbury Friends Meeting,  Caleb Hood,  Henry Bushong,  John Neal Russell,  Wood Day,  Jeremiah Brown,  Timoghy Haines,  William Brown,  Elijah Lewis,  Joseph Scarlett,  James Jackson,  Castner Hanway,  Joseph Smith,  George S. Lamborn

Places: Pennsylvania,  Lancaster County,  Lancaster,  Drumore Township,  United States