Black Rock Retreat (Quarryville, Pennsylvania, USA)
Black Rock Retreat Association, an association of members of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference, was organized in 1954 to own and operate a Mennonite camp. A tract of 50 acres along the Octoraro Creek, 1345 Kirkwood Pike, Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was purchased in 1954, and the Black Rock Retreat opened in 1956.
Additional Information
Black Rock Retreat website
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1066. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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