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Local Friends in the 19th century

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Plat map showing School #4 (Round Top) and the site of Pleasant Grove meetinghouse

At our recent living room conversation we looked at the plat maps showing where the original meetinghouses were - the school houses at Cedar Run and Long Lake - and photos of them. We studied plat maps showing Pleasant Grove and the Round Top schoolhouse where Levi Pennington taught, just outside Maple City.

We looked at the Garfield Township plat map that shows the Lone Pine schoolhouse, the predecessor of Traverse City Friends Meeting, and the nearby farm where evangelist Amos Kenworthy lived.

We saw photos of Libeus Wood, who was largely responsible for building our present meetinghouse in Traverse City in 1894, and a picture of the building, c. 1900. We noticed the similarity with the Manton meetinghouse (now owned by the Disciples of Christ, but at one time the second largest Friends meeting in the area.

We heard about the small meetings in Glen Arbor, Burdickville and even South Manitou Island, and the failed attempt to bring the Gospel to Walton Junction, with its bordellos and saloons.

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