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Photograph courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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The Quaker influence
in this region began in the 1730s with the English Friends who came into
the area from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. The community's
distinctive cast is still reflected in the region's small farms, many
of which are yet defined by their 18th-century land patents. The Goose
Creek Historic District is a scenically cohesive rural area of some 10,000
acres in central Loudoun County that sustained Virginia's largest concentration
of Quaker settlers. Worked without slave labor, Quaker farms were limited
in size to what could be run by a family unit. The district, which centers
on the village of
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Goose Creek: Hughesville
Photograph courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources |
Lincoln, preserves a rich collection of 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century
rural vernacular architecture, much of it incorporating the superb stone
masonry peculiar to Quaker settlers. Though threatened with creeping
suburbanization, few other areas of the region retain such a high degree
of unspoiled pastoral beauty.
The Goose Creek Historic District's location is roughly bounded
by Purcellville, Rtes. 611, 728, 797, 622, 704 and 709, and Lincoln.
The Goose Creek Friends Meeting House, within the district, is located
in Lincoln, on Lincoln Rd; call 703-777-5979 for further information.
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