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- Lincoln in Loudoun County VA was founded by Quakers in the 1740s and loomed large in the struggle for emancipation.
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Climate. Notable people. References. Lincoln, Virginia. Coordinates: 39°6′55″N 77°41′42″W. Lincoln is a historic unincorporated village in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Purcellville.
The village of Lincoln, located one mile south of Purcellville, is the heart of the Goose Creek Historic and Cultural District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lincoln is a historic unincorporated village in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located approximately 1.5 miles south of Purcellville.
Lincoln became the first community in the post-Civil War South to be named for assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Just down Sands Road less than a mile from the village, the last skirmish of the Civil War in Loudoun took place in a thunderstorm on March 21st, 1865 at a place called "Katy’s Hollow," near the intersection with today’s Manassas Gap Court.
History of Lincoln. Goose Creek Historic District Goose Creek Meetinghouse. The village of Lincoln, in the middle of Loudoun County, is the heart of the Goose Creek Historic District, the first rural historic district in Virginia. Lincoln was originally settled by Quakers and called Goose Creek. It was renamed Lincoln at the end of the Civil ...
The Goose Creek Historic District is a nearly 10,000-acre rural area in western Loudoun County, Virginia. Europeans first settled the area in the 1730s. By 1750, Quakers had established a meeting house in the village of Goose Creek; the name later changed to Lincoln. Eventually, Goose Creek became home to the largest concentration of Quakers in ...
Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,463. Its county seat is Hamlin. The county was created in 1867 and named for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln County is part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
