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  Location Pendleton, Indiana
  Added 1997
  Governing Body Private
  Refnum 96001544 1


The Fall Creek Meeting House is located approximately 3 miles east of Pendleton, Indiana on State Road 38.


HISTORY

In 1834, Enos Adamson deeded three acres east of Pendleton to the Society Of Friends . Adamson was paid $15 for the land. In 1836 the congregation built a log house for worship on the ground. In 1857, a frame meeting house was constructed at a cost of $800. The meeting house is representative of the rural meeting houses of the period. The building is still maintained and is now on the National Register Of Historic Places .

A pioneer cemetery adjoins the meeting house.


EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Aerial View - http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Fall_Creek_Meeting_House

  • Link to National Register of Historic Places for Madison County - http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IN/Madison/state.html

  • Cemeteries in Madison County Indiana - http://www.cemetaries-madison-co-in.com/friends_cemetary.htm