Old Kennett Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends or "Quakers" in Kennett Township, Pennsylvania.
The Kennett Monthly Meeting house now known as Old Kennett was first constructed in 1710 on land owned by Ezekiel Harlan, deeded from William Penn.

During the Revolutionary War these Quakers adopted an official attitude of neutrality, but it was in the cemetery adjoining the Old Kennett Meeting House that the first shots of the Battle of the Brandywine were fired on September 11, 1777.
Although the 5,000 British and Hessian forces were surprised as they came from Kennett that morning, the small American force led by General Maxwell was driven back to the north hills of Chadds Ford.
The soldiers killed in the battle that afternoon are buried in the adjoining Old Kennett Cemetery.

The meetinghouse is still open for Quaker worship on the last Sundays of June, July and August at 11am and for occasional weddings, funerals and other events.


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