Caln Meeting House facts for kids
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Caln Meeting House
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Caln Meeting House, HABS Photo
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| Location | 901 Caln Meeting House Rd., near Coatesville, Caln Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1726 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84003182 |
| Added to NRHP | May 03, 1984 |
Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan fieldstone structure. It was enlarged to its present size in 1801.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Services are still held weekly at the meeting house. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340.
One third of the Caln Meeting House is used by the Old Caln Historical Society as a local history museum and to house archives, artifacts and other historical memorabilia.
Brown, Francis G. (2001). Old Caln Meeting House, Its Story. Glenmoore, Pennsylvania: Glenmoore Corporation. pp. 73.
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