Meeting House 1816 Religious Society of Friends
NCC-76: Grew from New-Wark Meeting established 1682. Present House is third in this vicinity. Friends School begun here in 1748 has operated continuously. Among 3,000 buried in yard are founders of Wilmington, John Dickinson, “Penman of the Revolution,” and Thomas Garrett, Leader of Underground Railroad on Delmarva Peninsula. Installed in 1959. Marker Photo Gallery: Resources […]
Warner Mifflin
KC-91: Born into a slaveholding Quaker family in Virginia and later becoming an abolitionist, Warner Mifflin came to Delaware as a young man. An elder of the Religious Society of Friends, he traveled extensively to convince others to free their slaves, manumitting his own in 1774-75. In 1788, he was one of the founders of […]
Murderkill / Motherkiln Friends Meeting
KC-090: By 1712, Quakers of the Religious Society of Friends met “at the widow Needham’s at Murderkill Creek,” later establishing as Motherkiln Preparative Meeting. Circa 1760, a meetinghouse was constructed on this site. The structure burned soon thereafter, and for a time the Friends debated locating to a site near Tidbury Creek. A brick meetinghouse […]
Camden Friends Meeting (Burial Place of John Hunn)
The first Meeting House on this site was built in 1738. It was replaced in 1748 when a larger building was constructed. The old Meeting House was then converted into a school. Known as Wilmington Friends School, it was relocated to a new facility in 1937, and is the oldest existing school in the state. […]
