Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground

As years passed the area changed and attendance at Arney's Mount Meeting declined.

[1] The pillars supporting the gallery are turned from solid wood, the beaches are held together with hand forged bolts and the interior woodwork is in its natural aged hue.

The windows are placed in an irregular line to afford the maximum amount of light to the interior, which has an upper gallery on three sides which can be opened or closed by hand-hewn panels which rise into the attic area.

Horse sheds stood near the south boundary wall, which still holds the iron hitching rings.

More common among Friends was the practice of carving initials merely as a form of graffiti on the interior benches, and sometimes on the facades of meeting houses, although rarely are they so prominently placed.

An entry made on December 28, 1801, reads: "paid Thomas Harrison one Dollar for service done at the time the Mount Meeting House was Burnt.

Evidence of the fire can be found in the charred remnants of the former landing, visible beneath the cabinet stairs located in the southeast and southwest corners of the meeting house.

The only mention that appears within the preparative minutes are the findings of those requested to "examine the accounts of the committee appointed to rebuild the meeting house."

Names in the graveyard include those of the early settlers in the area such as "Lamb", "Lappencott", "Shreve", "Gaskill" and 'Newbold", and many others important to the heritage of Mount Holly and Pemberton, New Jersey.

Sign above the front entrance of Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse
Burial ground at Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse