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===Quaker Settlement=== Acting as a surveyor, [[John Reading (New Jersey governor)|John Reading]] laid out a tract of land for [[William Penn]] in 1715 that became the Quaker Settlement, the first non-Native Americans to live in Allamuchy.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 4">Johnson, ''History of Allamuchy'' (1973), p. 4.</ref> By 1752, the [[Society of Friends]], or Quakers, established a community in the northeast corner of what is now Allamuchy Township.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5">Johnson, ''History of Allamuchy'' (1973), p. 5.</ref> The settlement was chartered in [[Kingwood, NJ]], and the first [[Quakers]] to arrive in Allamuchy brought with them the materials to build their homes.<ref>Snell, James P., ''History of Warren and Sussex Counties, New Jersey'' (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1881), p. 743.</ref> The land controlled by the Quaker Settlement spanned an area not just in Allamuchy, but what is now considered [[Green Township, NJ]] as well.<ref>Snell, ''History of Warren and Sussex'' (1881), p. 744.</ref> This settlement was known as the "Hardwick Friends," because what is now Allamuchy Township was then a part of Hardwick Township. In 1735, Quakers selected a plot of land for use as a burying ground with accompanying stone wall and first constructed a wood meeting house in 1752, replacing it in 1764 with a stone building.<ref>Johnson, ''History of Allamuchy'' (1973), p. 5-6.</ref> The Hardwick Meeting sided with a branch of the Society of Friends known as the [[Hicksites]] in 1827, an event that compelled many of the Settlement's residents to leave for other Quaker communities.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5"/> On February 2, 1854, the last Quaker meeting took place in the Settlement; it was formally dissolved in 1855.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 5"/> The Friends' Burying Ground was used until 1918, when its stone wall was repaired and a small monument installed; it was later restored in 1940.<ref>Johnson, ''History of Allamuchy'' (1973), p. 6-7.</ref> The location of the Quaker meeting house was later used as a public school.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 6">Johnson, ''History of Allamuchy'' (1973), p. 6.</ref> There, in Fall 1921, the Quaker Grove School served as an experimental research station for rural education by researchers Fannie W. Dunn and Maria A. Everett from [[Teachers College, Columbia University]].<ref>Johnson, Helen R. ''History of Allamuchy Township'' Allamuchy, NJ: Allamuchy Historical Society, 1973, p.11</ref> The result of their fieldwork was the book, ''Four Years in a County School'', which detailed their findings with regards to the single-teacher model, curriculum, and observations about rural education in general.<ref>Fannie W. Dunn and Maria A. Everett, ''Four Years in a Country School'' (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1926)</ref> In 1940, the Township consolidated its four public schools into a single location, the present-day Allamuchy Township School, and the Quaker Grove school reverted to private ownership.<ref name="Johnson, 1973 p. 6"/>
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