Fairview Monthly Meeting ~ Near New Vienna, Ohio (Clinton County)

Fairview Monthly Meeting
(FUM ~ Wilmington Yearly Meeting)
6796 Antioch Rd.
New Vienna, Ohio 45159
1 mile E. of Ohio Rte. 729
3 miles North of New Vienna, Ohio

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TIMELINE:

• Around 1860~ Friends began to meet for worship in their homes and a Sunday School was established in the Hoskins Schoolhouse.
• 1868 ~ John Henry Douglas, a Quaker evangelist worked with the families in the area and held revivals.
• July 1869 ~ Fairview become a meeting for worship established by Fairfield Quarterly Meeting with approal of Fairfield (Leesburg) and Clear Creek (Samantha) Monthly Meetings. The first meetinghouse was a frame building, 30 X 50 feet with a partition in the center to separate the men's and the women's business meetings.
• 1910 ~ The present brick meetinghouse was dedicated.