The New Garden Meeting was established in 1712 at the home of John Miller. Three years later the meeting was granted liberty to build a meetinghouse.  In 1743, the present meetinghouse was built, replacing the original log house. During the 1827 Hicksite schism, the Orthodox Friends built a new meetinghouse across from the present one. The schism affected the larger Quaker community and centered on tolerance of slavery and whether the sect had lost touch with the humility and frugality advocated by founder George Fox.