Description: David Updegraff built this brick home with cupola in 1858. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07954
Subjects: Historic houses; Photography--Ohio; Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photographic print of Elisha Bates, a leading Ohio Quaker living in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Bates worked as a printer and was involved in the Beaconite controversy. Bates was born in Virginia, but came to Ohio to escape slavery in 1817 where he was an editor, printer, school teacher, and theologian. He purchased the first anti-slavery newspaper in America, "The Philanthropist" and advocated for an end to slavery and opposed colonialism. In the late 1810s and throughout the 1820s, Bates' focus shifted and he primarily wrote about theological ideas and religious doctrines for the Society of Friends. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07955
Subjects: Quakers; Society of Friends; Publishers and publishing; Authors
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "High School. Mt. Pleasant, O. Miller and Sons 436 Market St. Steubenville, Ohio." The village of Mount Pleasant is located about 20 miles southwest of Steubenville, Ohio. Most of the village has been designated a National Historic Landmark. More information is needed as to the status of this building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_035_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Jefferson County (Ohio)--History; National Historic Landmarks Program (U.S.); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Buggies lined up outside Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07924
Subjects: Quaker meeting houses; Society of Friends; Jefferson County (Ohio)
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Front view of John Hogg's mansion on Union Street in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was known by run away slaves as early as 1814 to be a safe house and was one of the houses in Mount Pleasant that was a part of the Underground Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07931
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Jefferson County (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio; Quakers
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sarah Jenkins (1818-1902) served as a Quaker minister and teacher in Mount Pleasant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07949
Subjects:
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
 

Description: An early view of row houses on Union Street, Mount Pleasant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07953
Subjects:
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, October 1974. It was built in 1814 and used regularly for religious services until 1909. It can accommodate up to 2,000 people. The state of Ohio acquired the meeting house in 1950 and it was restored and opened to the public by the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01021
Subjects: Quakers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
 

Description: Interior view of the Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, 1974. It was built in 1814 and used regularly for religious services until 1909. It can accommodate up to 2,000 people. The state of Ohio acquired the meeting house in 1950 and it was restored and opened to the public by the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01022
Subjects: Quakers; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
 

Description: Four images representing two postcards depict the interior of the Quaker Meeting House, also known as the Friends Yearly Meeting House, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. The meeting house holds 2,000 worshippers and contains a mechanism that allowed a partition to be raised and lowered. The partition was used to separate men and women during some special meetings. The first postcard shows the partition partly raised. The second postcard shows the Spanish windlass and wheel that was used to raise and lower the partition. These postcards measure 3" by 5" (7.6 by 12.7 cm). The Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio was built in 1814 for the Ohio Yearly Meeting. This was the first yearly meeting house built west of the Alleghenies. This meeting was composed of quarterly meetings from Ohio as well as Pennsylvania and the Indiana Territory. The final yearly meeting was held at the meeting house in 1909. The Quakers of Mount Pleasant were well-known for their abolitionist activities. As early as the 1810s, there are reports that the Quakers were assisting escaped slaves. In 1817, Charles Osborn began publishing the Philanthropist, which is regarded as the first anti-slavery newspaper in the nation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3242_3832061_001
Subjects: Civil Liberties; Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Quakers; Society of Friends; Religious facilities; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant before restoration. The meeting house was erected in 1814. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07923
Subjects: Quaker meeting houses; Society of Friends; Jefferson County (Ohio)
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of dozens of furniture items set up on an unknown theater stage in Ohio. Streamers are strung across the ceiling. Propped against a drum in the center of the stage is a sign for Bashore Music Store of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_09_001
Subjects: Theaters--Stage setting and scenery; Theater; Furniture; Musical instruments
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)