Recently, Friends at Fallsington Meeting were approached by someone who wanted to sweep their historic property with a metal detector, to see if he could unearth any interesting artifacts.

On Saturday, October 2nd Quakertown Friends Meeting held a dedication ceremony for an historic marker that honors the Nixon Cemetery, a burial site for non-Quakers that the Meeting offered to the community starting in 1764.

As a member of Plumstead Friends Meeting and a history enthusiast, I’ve often pondered about the history and origins of our meetinghouse.

In a memoir written for her nieces and nephews, Elizabeth Atkinson Woodman [1880–1984], a member of Wrightstown Meeting, shared what Bucks Quarterly Meeting was like at the beginning of the 20th century.