Newark Union Church and Cemetery
NCC-255: Newark Union Church was built in 1845 near the site of a 1704 poplar log Quaker meetinghouse and burial ground. The church was originally a one-room, two-story fieldstone structure built by Lewis Zebley and John Sharpley for $800. Renovations in 1906 transformed the building into a late Gothic Revival style church with stuccoed exterior […]
Newark Union
Successor to Newark Monthly Meeting of Friends. Established about 1682. Early meetings held at Morgan Dewit’s and at Valentine Hollingsworth’s. Named from plantation called New Wark or New Worke patented to Hollingsworth, who in 1687 donated one-half acre for a burying place, “being some already buryed in ye spot.” NC-5. Installed in 1933. Marker Photo […]
Lombardy Hall
In 1682, William Penn granted 986 acres of land at this location to Valentine Hollingsworth. A portion of the tract was subsequently conveyed to the Robinson family in 1726. The present stone dwelling was erected here circa 1750. In 1785, Gunning Bedford, Jr., signer of the United States Constitution, agreed to purchase the house and […]
