A Quaker village once called Goose Creek, long a center of education and antislavery conviction.
History
Quaker families from Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey began farming the Goose Creek country in the 1730s, creating Virginia’s largest concentration of Friends. They organized the Goose Creek Friends Meeting in 1747, raised a stone meetinghouse in 1765 and completed the brick meetinghouse in 1819. Because Quakers worked their land without enslaved labor, farms stayed modest in size, and many still follow their original 18th-century boundaries.
Education mattered here. A brick schoolhouse built in 1815 was open to all local children, and the Alliance notes that Black children from Quaker farms studied alongside white children before the Civil War. The meeting became a hub of abolitionist activity; local Friend Yardley Taylor aided people escaping slavery, and Samuel Janney opened a girls’ school in 1839 partly to spread antislavery ideas.
The village later took the name of Abraham Lincoln through its post office. Today the meetinghouses, school and Quaker burial ground still line the main road, and Lincoln anchors a rural historic district of roughly 10,000 acres.
Courses through Lincoln
Rides through Lincoln
- Back to Taylorstown/StumptownMay 12, 2012 · 63.2 mi
- Going to lunch at Fireworks PizzaNov 3, 2013 · 47.8 mi
- Graveling from delicious breakfast at petit Lou Lou creperie and bakeryOct 23, 2022 · 41.8 mi
- Up & Down all the time LoCo gravel loops rideJun 18, 2023 · 28.8 mi
- Sunday Leesburg exploring rideAug 25, 2024 · 38 mi
- Sunday pizza lunch at KneadsAug 9, 2026 · 20.3 mi
From our rides near Lincoln
Sources: Loudoun Historic Village Alliance – Lincoln · Wikipedia – Lincoln, Virginia · Virginia DHR – Goose Creek Rural Historic District (053-0002) · Lincoln Preservation Foundation – History. Ride counts from our own Strava and Ride with GPS logs, 2009–2026.
