`               In the latter part of the eighteenth century, several Quakers from
                                   Harpswell and Falmouth moved to Royalsborough, as Durham was
                                   then called. These Friends met at the home of Joseph Estes as early as
                                   1775. At first a part of Falmouth (Portland) Friends Meeting, Durham
                                   Meeting was formally established in 1790. No record exists as to the
                                   type of building they erected. The Meeting appears to have been
                                   active, since it mothered groups in Lewiston, Greene, Wales, Leeds,
                                   Wilton, Pownal, and Litchfield. When the first meetinghouse proved
                                   inadequate, a  new one was constructed in 1800. This meetinghouse
                                   burned to the ground in 1829.

                                   In December 1829, the present meetinghouse was completed at the
                                   cost of $650.  At that time there were two entrances and two sections
                                   inside, one for men and one for women. A partition between the two
                                   sections was up (open) for worship and down for business. The
                                   building was remodeled in 1900. When the need for additional space
                                   was felt in 1956, a wooden addition was constructed. Following a fire
                                   in 1986 which gutted the kitchen and damaged all of the interior, the
                                   meetinghouse was rebuilt and refinished and some furnishings
                                   replaced.

                                   For over 200 hundred years, Durham Friends Meeting has provided a
                                   spiritual community which enables Friends to seek God and live daily
                                   lives of sincerity, honesty, simplicity, gentleness, and loving kindness.