How long has North Branch Friends been in Northeast Pennsylvania?
Our meeting was founded in 1956, and formed a second worship group in the early 1990’s. Historically, Northeastern Pennsylvania was settled by Congregationalists from Connecticut, who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were antagonistic to Quakers. Thus, this area began to support a Quaker meeting far later than did many other parts of Pennsylvania. You can read more about our meeting’s history here.
