Caln Meeting House is a historic

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located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township,

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. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan

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structure. It was enlarged to its present size in 1801. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

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in 1984. The meeting house is open occasionally for museum events. A graveyard is also held on the northern end of the building, with another sitting on the other side of PA 340. CalnMeetingHouse1

One third of the Caln Meeting House is used by the Old Caln Historical Society as a local history museum and to house archives, artifacts and other historical memorabilia.

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Caln Friends Meeting House, Northeast corner of Kings Highway (Route 340) & Meetinghouse Road, Thorndale, Chester County, PA
26 photos, 3 color transparencies, 3 measured drawings, 24 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at

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