Peace House was founded in 1982 by a group of citizens who successfully developed Ashland as a nuclear free zone.  An affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peace House focused on issues of nuclear proliferation and peace.  For 25 years, Peace House has served as a Southern Oregon resource center for nonviolence, education and action on issues of human and civil rights, racial justice, environmental defense, economic justice, global solidarity and peace.  Many of our long-term Peace House supporters and volunteers are celebrated community elders from whom we seek wisdom and support.  In 2001, Ogden and Marjorie Kellogg of Gold Hill, OR, generously bequeathed our current residence to joint ownership by South Mountain Friends (Quaker) Meeting and Peace House, with the condition that both groups cohabitate in perpetuity.

Our partners in the South Mountain Friends (Quaker) Meeting began in the mid-1960's when a few families seeking a deeper understanding of the world and themselves started meeting in each other's homes. They  grew in number and in 1983 settled into the Newman Center in Ashland. Five years later they became a Monthly Meeting within the North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of  Friends. In July 2000, they moved to our present home at 543 South Mountain Avenue. They were originally called Rogue Valley Friends Meeting until August 2001.

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