Lincoln in Loudoun County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Goose Creek Historic District
Photographed by Franklin Bell, December 1, 2007
1. Goose Creek Historic District Marker
Goose Creek Historic District has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Viginia Historic Landmarks Commission Act of 1966.
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Landmarks • Settlements & Settlers. In addition, it is included in the Quakerism series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1966.
Location. 39° 6.798′ N, 77° 41.676′ W. Marker is in Lincoln, Virginia, in Loudoun County. It is on Intersection of Foundry and Sand (County Route off 611) 1.6 miles south of East Main Street, Purcellville (Business Route 7). Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lincoln VA 20160, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area and in Northern Virginia. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Goose Creek Friends Oakdale School (here, next to this marker); The Burning Raid (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Goose Creek Friends (approx. Ό mile away); Goose Creek Friends 1817 Meeting House (approx. Ό mile away); Goose Creek Friends 1765 Meeting House (approx. Ό mile away); Loudoun Branch, Manassas Gap Railroad (approx. 0.8 miles away); Loudoun County Emancipation Association Grounds
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More about this marker. Marker is by the Oakdale one-room school house.
Regarding Goose Creek Historic District. See the three other nearby markers for additional photos and more information about this historic district.
Also see . . . Goose Creek Rural Historic District. Virginia Department of Historical Resources website entry:
Links to National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form (Submitted on July 12, 2024, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)
Additional commentary.
1. From `Virginia: The WPA Guide to the Old Dominion'
In 1940, under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Works Progress Administration published guides to the individual states. In describing the 71-mile trip on State Rt. 7 from Alexandria to Winchester (Tour 13), the Guide states:
``At 44.3 m. is a junction with County 722.
``Left here is LINCOLN, 1.7 m. (101 pop.), a few frame houses and a store that form a hamlet begun in the 1730's by Friends from Pennsylvania. Here is Goose Greek Meeting, the only Quaker meeting to survive in Loudoun County, which grew out of the prayers of Jacob Janney's wife, Hannah, offered up twice weekly under the trees in the forest. The first meeting house, built shortly afger 1736, was replaced in 1765 by the SECOND GOOSE GREEK MEEING HOUSE (R), a stone building, now a dwelling, beside a stone-walled cmemtery. The THIRD MEETING HOUSE (L), a large red brick structure in use today, was erected in 1817.''
— Submitted March 13, 2008, by Franklin Bell of Bluemont, Virginia.
Additional keywords. Quakers Friends Virginia Lincoln, VA
Credits. This page was last revised on July 12, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 2, 2007, by Franklin Bell of Bluemont, Virginia. This page has been viewed 1,691 times since then and 32 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on December 2, 2007, by Franklin Bell of Bluemont, Virginia. • J. J. Prats was the editor who published this page.
