15. LONGWOOD MEETING
CHESTER COUNTY TOURIST BUREAU
AT LONGWOOD GARDENS

In 1853 activists in abolition, temperance, and women's rights formed the Society of Progressive Friends. The building that now stands was built in 1855.
John Greenleaf Whittier, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and other famous progressives spoke here.

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