After the 1828 schism, called the Hicksite-Orthodox Division, the Hicksites retained the Meetinghouse, and the Orthodox group returned to the log meetinghouse and the property was divided. They built the Red Brick Meeting House in 1836, and the two…

Built by David Halloway around 1805, this was the first tavern on the route of the Accommodation Line. By 1814 Quaker Joel Wright purchased the structure. Henry Clay stayed here in 1825, and Charles Dickens in 1842. Other prominent owners were…

Quakers arrived here by the thousands, beginning in 1799 from North and South Carolina and Virginia, leaving behind the slave economy and society. Friends also came from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Miami Meeting was founded in 1803, a log…

The 1905 Friends Boarding Home was opened by local Quakers to provide care for elderly Friends and “those in sympathy with them,” and operated into the 1990s. It was the predecessor of Quaker Heights Care Community, a ministry of Ohio Valley Yearly…

In the spring of 1827, William Werden, a well-known innkeeper from Springfield, and John Satterthwaite (1786-1837), a prominent Quaker farmer and businessman from Waynesville, established a stage line from Springfield to Cincinnati. They named their…

There are two historic structures in Waynesville associated with the Accommodation Stage Coach Line: the John Satterthwaite House and the Halloway Inn.

In 1866 the Miami Cemetery Association was formed with several prominent Quakers as Trustees. It was dedicated in 1867 “as a burial place forever”. Leopold Weltz of Wilmington landscaped the grounds, making it into a beautiful park-like setting, one…

William Harvey (1797-1866), son of settlers of the Springfield Meeting community, Isaac and Lydia Dicks Harvey, recorded the plat for Harveysburg in early 1829, opened the first store, and soon established a large pork packing business. His cousin…

Harveysburg Friends Meeting began as Grove Preparative Meeting about 1.5 miles south of the town. Once the village was established, the Meetings moved into town—the Orthodox on the west side of town and the Hicksites on the east side. Both Meetings…

Harveysburg, established in 1829, was once a thriving Quaker village with two Meeting Houses, schools, and an academy, several businesses and a pork packing industry. It was an important location on the Underground Railroad. Several black families…

Elizabeth Burgess Harvey (1801-1888), wife of Dr. Jesse Harvey, opened this school for free black children in 1831. The students were from local free black families, plus some children sent here by their plantation owner fathers. Some of the…

The Lukens were among the earliest Quaker settlers on the Harveysburg and Waynesville areas. This home is one of several still-standing houses of the Quaker Lukens families. In 1812 Levi Lukens purchased the 1000 acre survey of Revolutionary War…

Lewis Dakin bought this property from James Haines in 1850, and built this house soon afterward. Amos Underwood (1786-1867) from York County, PA, first settled in Liberty Township and then purchased this property in Chester Township, Clinton County,…

The Dakin-Underwood East Brick House was built by James Dakin around 1848. James was a descendant of Preserved Fish Dakin from New York state, where he had served in the American Revolution before coming to Ohio. This house and farm were acquired by…

The Underwood Houses are three historic Quaker homes on the north side of Ohio Route 73. The “Tower House” built by Zephaniah Underwood is an excellent but rare example of 1880s stick style architecture. Zephaniah at age 51 married Matilda J.…