Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1970. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.”
Wikipedia article Friends Meetinghouse (Mount Pleasant, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 17 National Register listings in Jefferson County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Jefferson County.
National Register reference number.70000504- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
9 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Friends Meetinghouse between
2003 and 2019, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 142 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Friends Meetinghouse between 1876 and
1965: 133 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Calkins, W. W. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
1,762 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Society of Friends, or Quakers, which was composed of 5 quarterly meetings in Pennsylvania, Ohio and the Indiana Territory. It was the first yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies, and from it all of Quakerdom west of Ohio may be said to have sprung. American Quakers, especially in the South, for a haven from slavery and early as the 1650's, and William Penn made his colony the center for the procession of Friends into the southern colonies, but the stand of the sect Quakers began moving into the West in 1796 after the Ordinance of 1787 and the Treaty of GreeneVille in 1795 opened the area northwest of the come into the Miami Valley, but soon after others followed, settling in the Scioto Valley.
In 1800 the great Quaker migration began, with the Short Creek, a few miles west of the Ohio River above Wheeling. By the end of 1800, it is said, more than 800 Friends had moved into the Ohio country. At first, the western monthly meetings were attached to the Mount Pleasant, founded in 1803, had become by 1814 the center of Ohio of Quakerdom in the West, its architecture and construction a tribute to the ingenuity and industry of these people.
1814 Conservation Commerce Engineering Communications REGISTER NATIONAL Landscape SIGNIFICANCE Agriculture Architecture Aboriginal Art losophy Quaker business, flour milling and farming activity.The Quakers in the Sculpture Urban Planning community a prosperous one.The large brick meeting house was deeded to Northwest and the New West offered economic opportunity and freedom for The construction of the meeting house was the result of the search of these people.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000504, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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