"Mt. Pleasant Friends began to settle at Mt. Pleasant in 1800 and with those who settled at Short Creek, about one-half mile west of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, they started worship services. A Worship and Preparative Meeting officially came into existence at Short Creek on December 19, 1801. Concord and Short Creek Preparative Meetings were organized as a monthly Meeting at this time. The Mt. Pleasant Friends met at Short Creek Meeting house until the construction of the Yearly Meeting house in Mt. Pleasant in 1815. In 1816 the Friends in Mt. Pleasant began holding worship services in the Yearly Meeting house. A Preparative Meeting was established in 1817 as a component of Short Creek Monthly Meeting. The Separation of 1828 divided the Mt. Pleasant Meeting. THe Hicksite branch purchased land about one mile west of Mt. Pleasant at Trenton and built a meeting house there."

Pictures of the Short Creek Friends Meeting House built in 1814 in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Read the story in the MT. Pleasant section. Click on the pictures to enlarge.