The Goose Creek Historic District is a rural landscape in the Goose Creek

Goose Creek (Potomac River)

Goose Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River in Fauquier and Loudoun counties in northern Virginia. It comprises the principal drainage system for the Loudoun Valley.-Course:...

 valley of Loudoun County, Virginia

Loudoun County, Virginia

Loudoun County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the county is estimated to be home to 312,311 people, an 84 percent increase over the 2000 figure of 169,599. That increase makes the county the fourth...

. The district covers about 10000 acres (4,046.9 ha) south of Hamilton

Hamilton, Virginia

Hamilton is a town in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The population was 562 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:...

 and Purcellville

Purcellville, Virginia

Purcellville is a town in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,584 at the 2000 census, but has undergone considerable growth since then. Purcellville is the major population center for western Loudoun and the Loudoun Valley...

 and includes the village of Lincoln

Lincoln, Virginia

Lincoln is an historic unincorporated village in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located approximately south of Purcellville. It was established as the community of Goose Creek during the 1750s by Quaker settlers and renamed Lincoln after the president shortly after his...

. The majority of the district is farmland, with areas of forest along Hogback Mountain. The area was settled by Quakers

Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...

 in the mid-8th century, represented by simple houses and the Goose Creek Meetinghouse Complex

Goose Creek Meetinghouse Complex

The Goose Creek Meetinghouse Complex is a Quaker worship center, with an original 1765 meetinghouse, an 1817 meetinghouse, and the Oak Dale schoolhouse in the village of Lincoln, Virginia. The 1765 meetinghouse is a one-story stone building. The 1817 meetinghouse was originally built as a two-story...

 in Lincoln, separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

. About 270 buildings lie within the district. The district includes 44 stone buildings, reflecting the popularity of this material in the 18th and 19th centuries in this area. Many houses have outbuildings and barns built in a manner complementary to the dwellings. By the mid-19th century, materials turned to brick, with the Glebe of Shelburne Parish

Glebe of Shelburne Parish

The Glebe of Shelburne Parish is a house built as a glebe in rural Loudoun County, Virginia around 1775 to attract a cleric to preach in the Shelburne Parish of the Anglican Church. Shelburne Parish, named for the Earls of Shelburne, desired in 1771 that a minister preach at Leesburg, Virginia...

 an NRHP-listed example of a brick Federal style

Federal architecture

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...

 house, as well as the Israel Janney House.

The Goose Creek Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1982.

External links

• Goose Creek Historic District at the Journey Through Hallowed Ground