Quaker settlers brought their lifestyle, culture, and religion to the Orchard Park area in the very early 1800's, beginning with David Eddy of Danby, Vermont, in 1804 and followed by members of the Society of Friends from Vermont, eastern New York, and Pennsylvania. Seeking quiet agrarian communities apart from the larger world's corrupting influences, the fledgling congregation was initially subordinate to the Meeting in Pelham, Ontario, and first worshiped in the cabin of early settler Obadiah Baker. In 1811 they bought one-half acre at Orchard Park's Four Corners, with a log house already standing there, for $20 to serve as their meetinghouse, and they also bought two acres nearby for burial purposes. Although the War of 1812 interrupted communication with Pelham, the group continued to grow, and in 1817 they purchased three acres on this site from Aldrich Arnold for $115, where they built Orchard Park's Quaker Meeting House and established a cemetery. The Society moved into the still unfinished new meetinghouse in September 1821, later reduced the Four Corners cemetery to one-half acre, established the first local lending library in the building in February 1823, and built a school on the property in 1826, along with horse sheds. Home to Erie County's oldest active congregation and the first house of worship of any denomination in the county, the meetinghouse has witnessed ten generations, including the eras of the Underground Railroad and the Women's Suffrage movement, while enduring as a reminder of Orchard Park's roots in an orderly agrarian society and of Quaker commitments to simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and God's Light.