Camden Friends Meetinghouse
Commerce St., Camden, DELaid out in 1783 by Daniel Mifflin, a member of the Society of Friends the town of Camden has been a center for a considerable Quaker population since that time. In 1800, Camden Meeting was established, the last in Southern Delaware. Twenty-five members of the Society of Friends in the Camden area signed a petition and appointed three trustees to erect a building for worship and education. In 1805 the present Camden Meeting House was erected on land deeded by Jonathan and Patience Hunn in 1806. Unlike most meeting houses, the Camden Meeting was built with a gambrel roof and a north gable-end frontage.
In 1828 the Motherkill Monthly Meeting joined the Duck Creek Meeting; the joint meeting became known as the Camden Monthly Meeting in 1830. Meetings were held alternately at Camden Meeting House and Little Creek Meeting House until the latter was suspended in 1865. Since that time, Camden Meeting has remained the only active meeting in lower Delaware. A
t present, the Camden Monthly Meeting is under the jurisdiction of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Adjoining the meeting house is a graveyard, with stones dating to 1837, which is notable for its unusually tall grave markers. The school, located above the meeting room, was active from 1805 until its suspension in 1882.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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