This room is dedicated to the long history of Quakers in our area.  Southern Quakers were having a crisis with the slavery of the time.  In 1799 the Quakers of Bush River Meeting in Newberry County, South Carolina sent Abijah O'Neill and Samuel Kelly to our area of the Northwest Territories to look over land they had bought in a military land grant.  These two men later returned to Waynesville with twelve families who left Bush River in protest of slavery, selling their property for half its value and selling their slaves to the Bush River Meeting.  In 1803 the Miami Monthly Meeting officially met for the first time in a log cabin.  In 1811 the historic White Brick Meeting House was built and is today the oldest religious building in continuous use west of the Allegheny Mountains.  It is a Hicksite Meeting with the 1865 Red Brick, across the street, an Orthodox Meeting.  The 1805 Quaker burial ground is also across from the White Brick.

In the room there are two marriage certificates on the wall.  When two people are married in the Quaker style, all members of the meeting house must agree to that marriage and all members must sign the marriage certificate.

The colors of the clothing in this room represent a protest to the slave labor used at that time for making bright-colored dyes for clothing.  The Quakers used only plant and vegetable dyes.  The closet has several Quaker bonnets and a high hat along with a number of journals.  The Quakers encouraged journal writing among their members.