The Forty Fort Meeting House is the first completed church building in which religious services were held in Northeast Pennsylvania. Founding Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury conducted a service on the site in 1806.

One of the five remaining oldest buildings in the Wyoming Valley:

• Nathan Denison House 1790
• Lord Butler House 1793
• Swetland Homestead 1803
• Forty Fort Meeting House 1807
• Elijah Shoemaker House 1820

 1807 Building Committee 

• Lazarus Denison
• Benjamin Dorrance
• Daniel Hoyt
• Elijah Shoemaker
• Luke Swetland

Wyoming Seminary’s founding stems from an 1839 sermon delivered from the Meeting House
pulpit by Rev. Dr. George Peck on the need for a local academic academy.
(page 124, "He Holds the Stars In His Hands: The Centennial History of The Wyoming Annual Conference of the Methodist Church" by Leroy E. Bugbee copyright 1952)

Since 1988, the Meeting House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.