Federal Hill Mission Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
Records of Federal Hill Mission Meeting, 1879-1906. Includes membership records 1883-1905, minutes 1879-1906, Building Committee records 1889-1885, minutes of Bible School Association, 1886; miscellaneous documents, 1881-1898.
Dates
- Creation: 1879-1906
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Access may be provided via digital or microfilm copy, per repository policy.
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Biographical / Historical
In the late 1850s, Quakers from Baltimore Monthly Meeting sponsored a Boy's Meeting in rented facilities in the Federal Hill section of south Baltimore. In the next twenty years, a Mothers' Meeting, Girls' Sewing Meeting, Men's Bible Class, and Night School were started. In 1871 they purchased property on Light Street and, in 1879, built a new building.
Some members of Federal Hill formed a Friends' Federal Hill Mission Gospel Society. Others requested that a meeting for worship be held on First Days. There is no record of a monthly meeting being established there, but a regular Meeting for Worship met once a month and was formally sanctioned in 1893. In 1906, a Local Business Meeting was set off, but was laid down only three years later.
This meeting was also called the Light Street Meeting.
Extent
0.5 linear ft.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Divided into series: Vital Records; Meeting Minutes; Committee Records; Miscellaneous.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposit, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Existence and Location of Copies
Also available in microfilm, for use in the Library only:
Subject
- Title
- Federal Hill Mission Meeting Records
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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