Historical Marker

Exeter Friends Meeting

Meetinghouse Rd. & Boone Rd., .5 mile S of PA 562 & 2 mile W of Yellow House · Berks

Inscription

Established 1725 as Oley; name changed to Exeter, 1742. Present stone meeting house built 1759 near site of two previous log structures. Buried here are members of the Boone, Ellis, Hughes, Lee, and Lincoln families. Meetings discontinued 1899; building reopened for worship in 1949.

Location

AddressMeetinghouse Rd. & Boone Rd., .5 mile S of PA 562 & 2 mile W of Yellow House

CountyBerks

StatePennsylvania

Coordinates40.312900, -75.784430

Sources

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

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