Greenleaf Friends Meeting House - Greenleaf, Idaho - 1944
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N 43° 40.206 W 116° 49.297
11T E 514380 N 4835248
The stone meetinghouse in Greenleaf, Idaho. Cornerstone dated 1906 - 1944. The old church in 1906 and the stone church in 1944.
Waymark Code: WMKH6A
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2014
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In 1906, a monthly meeting of the Friends was established in what has since become Greenleaf. The first meetings were held by Anson Cox in the Brown home. The original building was a wooden structure which was started in 1907 and finished by 1908.
The stone church was started in September 1943 after the government approved the use of rationed building materials. The stone for the outside walls of the building came from the area of the Owyhee Reservoir dam. The cornerstone was sealed in 1944 and the building was finished sometime after that.
The current church is attached to the Greanleaf Friends Academy which is also on site and offers K-12 education.
For more great history of this community of Friends see:
Winslow, Dilla Tucker. From Sagebrush to Green Fields. Nampa: Artcraft Press, 1984. Print.
Year of construction: 1944
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Full inscription:
Greenleaf Friends Church
AD 1906 - 1944
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