Arney's Mount Friends Meeting House

At the intersection of Mount Holly-Juliustown and Pemberton-Arney's Mount Roads in Burlington County is a historic ​Quaker meeting house, which dates back to 1775, and has been remarkably preserved in the same appearance it had in 1811, despite succumbing to fire twice in its history. 

Source:http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/

Arneys Mount is an  community located within Springfield Township in Burlington County.  Its also the name of a hill located next to it. 

 The building is constructed of iron-stone quarried locally on Arney's Mount. 

Engraved in the bricks is the name Samuel Smith, which is the person who built the structure.

Source:http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/

Source:http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/

The building is still without electricity or plumbing, and a wood stove serves as the only heat source. 

Next to the Meeting House is the burial grounds, which are still in use and pre-dates the Meeting House by many years and includes early settlers in the area. The oldest graves are not marked. 

In 1870, a wall was erected around the graveyard in sandstone.  It encloses only a portion of the grave as some​ were buried "outside the wall" having lost favor with Meeting or were buried elsewhere on the grounds in unmarked sites before the walls were constructed.

​Since 1941, meeting for worship usually has been held twice monthly. 

Links:
​Arney's Mount Friends Quaker Meeting House Cemetery