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Quaker City, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 563
Housing Units (2000): 241
Land area (2000): 0.529326 sq. miles (1.370948 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.529326 sq. miles (1.370948 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65116
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.969740 N, 81.298988 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43773
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Quaker City, OH
Quaker City
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Quaker City (disambiguation)

Quaker City could refer to:

  • Quaker City, Ohio, a city in eastern Ohio
  • USS Quaker City (1854), featured in Mark Twain's novel The Innocents Aboard
  • a nickname for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • a train operated by Amtrak as part of the Clocker service
  • The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall, a novel by George Lippard
Quaker City (sound system)

Quaker City is a sound system based in Handsworth in Birmingham, playing as far afield as London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.

It was founded in 1964 by Karl Irving, who was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, but emigrated to Birmingham in England. Originally playing ska, it later focused on reggae.

Usage examples of "quaker city".

In numbers, if not in influence, Presbyterians and Baptists had long since surpassed the Quakers of the Quaker City.

Philadelphia was the Quaker City, and the Quakers were leaders in the emancipation movement.

In making the change here I again apprehended arrest, but no one disturbed me, and I was soon on the broad and beautiful Delaware, speeding away to the Quaker City.

Hosmer Fenwick, of Philadelphia, asking his aid in perfecting an airship which the resident of the Quaker City had built, but which would not work.

These changes touched me deeply, and I went away and joined the famous Quaker City European Excursion and carried my tears to foreign lands.