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Contact: Robert McHugh, Millbrook Historical Society
Phone: (845) 677-4381
Email: millbrookhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

Quaker Lecture Series Sponsored by Millbrook Historical Society

Part of County-Wide Participation in National REV250 Commemoration

Millbrook, NY – June 2025

The Millbrook Historical Society will hold two lectures related to Quaker history as part of Dutchess County’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. 

On Sunday, June 29th at 2pm, Sarah Gronningsater, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (2024), will speak on Quakers, Anti-slavery, and the American Revolution.  Her talk will focus on the role that Quakers in New York and specifically the Hudson Valley played in the rise of anti-slavery sentiment and activism in the years following the American Revolution.    

Carl Lounsbury of the College of William and Mary and Colonial Williamsburg will speak on the architecture of the Nine Partners Meetinghouse on Sunday, July 27 at 2pm.  His talk, Nine Partners Meetinghouse Plan: A New Form in the Hudson Valley, will put the structure in the context of other later 18th century houses of worship in New York and New England.  Lounsbury is the author of many works on early American architecture.      

Each talk will be held at the historic Nine Partners Quaker Meetinghouse in Millbrook. The brick meetinghouse was built in 1780 to replace an earlier version that burned and is little changed from its 18th century appearance.  Enter through the cemetery gate on Church St. The programs are FREE and open to all. 

Please note: Due to the historic nature of the buildings, handicap accessibility is limited.  Additionally, restroom facilities are not available on site.

These programs are made possible through grants awarded by Dutchess County.

For more information visit: https://www.millbrookhistoricalsociety.org/events