1816 Farmington
Quaker Meetinghouse
A National Center for Equal Rights
1816 Farmington
Quaker Meetinghouse
A National Center for Equal Rights
Our Mission
The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum preserves and interprets the 1816 Meetinghouse as a national site of conscience and a cornerstone of historic movements for equal rights, social justice, and peace, including rights for Native Americans, African Americans, and women, encouraging visitors to explore equality, justice and peace in their own lives.
Equal Rights For All
Farmington was linked to the Underground Railroad and major Black leaders in the national movement to abolish slavery.
Seneca people met in the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse with Quaker allies to organize resistance to loss of their lands in the 1838 Treaty of Buffalo Creek.
Quakers helped organize the Seneca Falls women’s rights convention in 1848 and at least one-quarter of the signers of the Declaration of Sentiments were affiliated with Farmington Friends.
News
Friendly Greetings! Fall 2023
Some of you may be old enough to remember a Pete Seeger song called “To
Courtesy Margaret Hartsough and Ontario County Historical Society
Photo by Judith Wellman
Supporters, c. 2010
Helen Kirker, Susan B. Anthony a.k.a. Barbara Blaisdell, Peter Jemison (Wolf Clan, Seneca)
November 11, 2011
Installing new bay, November 16, 2018
Photo by Jack Haley. Courtesy Canandaigua Messenger
Helen Kirker, Founding President, in Quaker dress
1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse
Photo by Reg Neale
2017.
l. to r.-- Kate Larson (Tubman biographer), Pauline Copes Johnson and daughter Deirdre Stanford (descended from Tubman’s niece Ann Marie Stewart), Rosemarie Romano (Tubman Booster Club), Judy Bryant (descended from Tubman’s broth William Henry Stewart), and Coline Jenkins (great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton).
Photo by Judith Wellman
Supporters holding “This Place Matters” signs from the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
2016
We remember with gratitude and humility that the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse stands on traditional homelands of Seneca (Onondowagah) people, keepers of the western door of the Haudenosaunee (Hodinohso:ni) Confederacy. We are honored to work with Seneca people today to help create a world of respect and care for the earth and all living beings.