Concord Friends Meetinghouse

Concord Friends Meetinghouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Concord Friends Meetinghouse, October 2009
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Location	Old Concord Rd., Concordville, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°53′7″N75°31′13″W / 39.88528°N 75.52028°W / 39.88528; -75.52028
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1728
NRHP reference No.	77001164 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1977

Concord Friends Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Old Concord Road in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The meeting was first organized sometime before 1697, as the sixth Quaker meeting in what was then Chester County. In 1697 the meeting leased its current location for "one peppercorn yearly forever" from John Mendenhall. ^[2] A log structure was built in 1710. The current brick edifice structure was built in 1728. After a fire which completely destroyed the interior, the meetinghouse was rebuilt and enlarged in 1788. ^[3] During the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, which was fought a few miles to the west, wounded American soldiers took refuge in the meetinghouse. ^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It is located in the Concordville Historic District. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Ashmeade, Henry Graham (1884). History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. p.  484 . Retrieved June 7, 2017.
3. Jordan, John W. (1912). A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Its People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 396. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
4. Natural & Historic Resource Associates (May 1971). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Concord Friends Meetinghouse. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 17, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)