UNITED STATES - March 9, 2019: A little girl reads a headstone in the Goose Creek Friends graveyard in the Village of Lincoln. The Religious Society
UNITED STATES - March 9, 2019: A little girl reads a headstone in the Goose Creek Friends graveyard in the Village of Lincoln. The Religious Society of Friends—“Quakers”—arrived in Loudoun County from Quaker-settled Pennsylvania in 1733, finding that colony becoming crowded with good land in short supply. The Loudoun Valley’s fine soil fit the bill. Initially, Quakers settled some seven miles to the north in and around the village of Waterford, but soon spread out. The Goose Creek Friends Meeting in the Village of Lincoln followed in the 1740s. Quakers, a Christian sect founded in Lancashire in England in the 1650s as an outgrowth of the Puritan movement, believed in the “divine spark” in every human being, regardless of race, nationality, or sex. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP)
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