Site of Friends Meeting since 1686. Present building erected 1851. A school and library were established here in 1832. Benjamin West, noted American artist, attended this Meeting when he was a boy.
Here was born the first chief engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1847~52, and its third president, 1852~74. He was responsible for construction of the main line, Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, and for the system's expansion to the Mississippi River.