Mill Creek Friends Meeting House
Item Description
Building dated 1841.
"Mill Creek. Del."
An indulged meeting at Mill Creek was established in 1838 by New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) for Friends of Centre (Hockessin), New Garden, and Wilmington Monthly Meetings. A meeting for worship and preparative meeting were established in 1841 under New Garden Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). The preparative meeting was discontinued in 1924. By 1937, the meeting for worship at Mill Creek was held on an annual basis. Mill Creek Meeting revived in 1954 as a united meeting for worship under the two Western Quarterly Meetings. Mill Creek Monthly Meeting was established in 1955 by Western Quarterly Meeting (Hicksite) and Western Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox). This is currently an active monthly meeting. (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee, Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1989, p. 132).