Samantha Monthly Meeting ~ Clear Creek (Highland County)

Samantha Monthly Meeting
(formerly Clear Creek Monthly Meeting)
(FUM ~ Wilmington Yearly Meeting)
US 62
Samantha, Ohio (Highland County)

TIMELINE:

• September 7th,1807 ~ Redstone Quarterly Meeting in Pennsylvania granted permission for a meeting for worship and a preparative meeting to be established in south central Ohio. It would be on Leescreek and known as Fairfield Meeting, see Leesburg Monthly Meeting ~ Fairfield (Highland County) and Old Fairfield Meetinghouse ~Highland County, Ohio). Meetings for worship were to be established at Clear Creek and at Fall Creek. The two meetings would alternate preparative meetings and monthly meetings.
• November 14th, 1812 ~ Clear Creek Monthly Meeting was established. The original log cabin meetinghouse was located on High Top Road. After becoming a monthly meeting, another room was added to the original cabin for the women's business meetings and a large door was cut between the two rooms.
• 1885 ~ A new meetinghouse was built in the nearby village of Samantha and the meeting became known as Samantha Monthly Meeting.