Camden Friends Meetinghouse

Camden Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located on Delaware Route 10 (Camden Wyoming Avenue) in Camden, Delaware. It was built in 1805, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and continues to be used by Camden Friends Meeting as the only active Quaker meeting house remaining in Kent County. A modern social hall was built behind the historic building in 2009, designed to be energy-efficient and architecturally respectful of the historic building. Camden was once the center of a Quaker population, with the town laid out by Quaker Daniel Mifflin in 1783. Camden Friends Meeting House was initially built to serve a preparative meeting which was established in 1795 under the care of Motherkill Monthly Meeting. The preparative meeting was upgraded in 1830 to Camden Monthly Meeting as a merger of Motherkill Monthly Meeting and Duck Creek Meeting. Camden Friends Meeting is affiliated with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference. Camden Friends Meeting is currently the only active Quaker meeting in Kent County. The meetinghouse is a two-story, gambrel-roofed, brick building measuring 2,864 square feet (266.1 m2). The roof is punctuated by two shed-roofed dormers designed for lighting the second floor, which housed a school that operated from 1805 to 1882. The original desks, benches, and blackboard are still prese

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