Quaker meeting house torn down, 1946

dc.date.accessioned	2019-08-27T15:03:15Z
dc.date.available	2019-08-27T15:03:15Z
dc.date.issued	1946-10-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000618
dc.description	This photograph documents the razing of the 75-year-old Quaker meeting house at in Fremont Park in late October 1946. The Nov. 3, 1946, Enquirer and News noted that it was the city's last structural link with the small band of Friends who had settled here a century prior. Between 1848 and 1899, the site of what would be Fremont Park was used by the Society of Friends for its meeting house and cemetery. In 1889, the city leased the land from the Quakers for the city park. "The meeting house, used these last 47 years as a tool shed by the park department, had become a fire hazard," the caption read. "It had two front doors, side by side, one for men, the other from women, who worshiped there in silence with a colonnade between them. Don Post, Ramond Road wrecker, and a helper on the ladder, leveled the building, finding no relics but an 1886 penny."	en_US
dc.format.medium	4x5 BW negative
dc.subject	Quakers Friends churches religion	en_US
dc.title	Quaker meeting house torn down, 1946	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.description.envelope	QUAKER MEETING HOUSE Fremont Park Don Post on ground, helper on ladder
dc.description.photographer	Enquirer and News
dc.description.taxonomy	Religion\|Churches\|Quaker Church	en_US