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Waynesville Quakers History Timeline

1799

Land Purchased by Abijah O'Neall, Robert Mills, and Jesse Pugh between the Little Miami and Great Miami Rivers, the Virginia Military Land, and prepared to move their families from the Bush River Meeting, in South Carolina

1801

First Meeting at someone's home, which started the procedure to become an organized Monthly Meeting.

1802

Friends Open a School in Waynesville just five years after the founding of the town, reflecting the importance Friends place on Education.

1803

Miami Monthly Meeting Established.

1804

Burial Ground started and set up by date of death rather than family association or status.

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1805

Miami Monthly Meeting Log Cabin, 10X10, was built located near the current Red Brick Meetinghouse.

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1807

Three Other Meetings were "set off" or authorized by Miami Monthly Meeting.

1809

Miami Quarterly Meeting established.

1811

White Brick Meetinghouse built, costing $1300. It is the oldest place of worship in continuous use west of the Alleghany Mountains. The same year, a school house was built across the street.

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1814

Ohio Yearly Meeting took place in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.

1821

Indiana Yearly Meeting Established.

1828

Schism Hits Quakers. The split between the "Hicksite" and "Orthodox" Friends.
Elias Hicks visits the Miami Valley. The first major Quaker figure to come to the area.

1831

Friend Elizabeth Harvey opened a school for African-American children in Harveysburg. It is maintained today as a Private Museum.

Harvysburg

1836

Red Brick Meetinghouse built by the Orthodox Friends.

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1870s

Remodel of White Brick Meetinghouse

1890s

Work for Temperance and Women's Rights.

1903

Centennial of the Miami Monthly Meeting.

1905

Friends Home Built as a place for elderly Friends and others in the community to spend their final years. The building is now leased to the Waynesville Area Cultural Center.

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1917

Work to Feed War-Torn Europe. Provided war-time care and medical service for civilian sufferers in France.
American Friends Service Committee Founded work for the Indians.

1918

Supplied Farmers with seed and small livestock, repaired machinery, planted 33,000 fruit trees in Post-War Reconstruction works in France.

1920

Women's Vote. The Quakers worked 100 years for Women's Rights.
Feeding Stations established in war-devastated Poland. Bought 1,000 Army horses to lend to farmers for plowing.

1920

Farmers' Relief in Russia. Distributed milk, food, and medicine.

1925

Work for Indians and Poor People of Depression. Worked with Settlement Houses, Reform Schools, and schools for Indians, Blacks and isolated mountain children.

1933

Homestead Projects. Help form home industry programs in Appalachia.

1936

Helped Sharecroppers in Arkansas to improve farming methods.
Founded First Rural Birth Clinic in U.S.

1937

Refugee Relief to both sides of the Spanish Civil War.

1938

Advanced Emigration of Jewish families in Nazi Germany
Sent Delegates to Germany to remonstrate with the Gestapo.

1940s

Supported Contentious Objectors during World War II.

1944

Joined in Post-War Relief and reconstruction in Europe.

1947

Nobel Peace Prize received by American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and all Friends who work in war-torn Europe.

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1947

Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL) established and headquartered in Washington D.C., located across from the Senate Building. It was recently established as a Green Building.

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1952

War Relief efforts in Korea, including building hospitals and feeding children.

1961

Youth Volunteers sent to work in developing countries, assisted in Visa Program, the forerunner of the Peace Corps.

1970

Last Yearly Meeting held at Waynesville.

1972

Quaker Heights, a 48 bed nursing home, was established. It filled up in 6 months and was expanded the next year.

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1976

Ohio Yearly Meeting was renamed to Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting.

1980

Art Show.

1995

Memorial Meeting for 25 year anniversary of Kent State with Governor Gilligan speaking.

1998

The District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

2000

Quaker Heights major expansion to add assisted living.

2003

Bicentennial Celebration of Miami Monthly Meeting.

2005

Disaster Relief to victims of Southeast Asia Tsunami.

2019

Quaker Heights Sold to Ohio Living Foundation.

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2022

Burial Ground Commemoration.

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2023

Red Brick sold to a private buyer.

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