Village of Lincoln

This area of Loudoun County suffered during the Burning Raid of November and December 1864. First community in the post-Civil War South to be named for Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln is a few miles southeast of Purcellville, in the heart of the “Quaker Settlement.” Lincoln is an unincorporated village in Loudoun Valley that was established as the community of Goose Creek in the 1750s by Quaker settlers. Its residents opposed secession and slavery before the Civil War, and attempted to be neutral after hostilities broke out. They eventually confirmed their status as citizens of the Confederacy and willingly obeyed its laws, except those requiring them to bear arms. Some may well have been involved in the Underground Railroad. When Union forces came to Western Loudoun to burn out Mosby’s guerillas in late November 1864, Quaker farms and mills were burned as well. Lincoln became the first community in the post-Civil War South to be named for assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.  [Text from http://civilwar.visitloudoun.org]