Goose Creek Meetinghouse Complex

Goose Creek Meetinghouse Complex is a Quaker settlement in Lincoln featuring four main structures built across different eras. It includes a stone meeting house from 1765, a brick meeting house from 1817, a burial ground, and the Oakdale schoolhouse that together represent the site's religious and educational heritage.

The original site began in 1750 with a log meeting house that served an early Quaker settlement. Over time, believers constructed permanent stone and brick buildings to accommodate the community's growth and changing needs.

The Oakdale Schoolhouse, erected in 1815, became the first school in Loudoun County to educate African-American children after the Civil War. This building reflects how the complex extended its mission to support communities that faced exclusion elsewhere.

The complex remains an active worship center and hosts regular Quaker meetings throughout the year. Visitors should plan ahead to respect ongoing activities and services held at the site.

After a severe 1944 windstorm damaged the brick meeting house, wartime material shortages forced builders to convert it from two stories to one. This practical wartime adaptation remains visible in the building's unusual proportions today.

Location: Virginia

GPS coordinates: 39.11360,-77.69470

Latest update: December 14, 2025 16:46