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Mennonite Meeting House, Chester, PA, as it appeared in 1880.
Credit: Futhey, J. Smith and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County. Philadelphia. L.H. Everts, 1881.
In the early 1700s, German Anabaptist farmers settled across the interior counties of Pennsylvania, and erected simply meeting houses for religious services. Goshenhoppen Mennonite settlers erected this meeting house in 1731.