| 1799/09/20 |
George Washington |
Benefactor |
as it has been understood from expressions occasionally dropped from your Wife, that it is the wish of you both to settle in this neighbourhood ... I ... bequeathed to you and her jointly, if you incline to build on it, ... Grays hill, - GW |
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| 1800/00/00 |
Dr William Thornton |
Architect |
William Thornton designs the five-bay central block main house with a central hall. The plan for the plantation includes a large brick barn, farm house, corn houses, sheds and dwellings for the enslaved people. |
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| 1802/00/00 |
Lawrence Lewis |
Home |
Lawrence Lewis begins building structures on Grays Hill at Dogue Run farm. |
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| 1805/00/00 |
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis |
Home |
Lawrence and Nelly Lewis move into a small dependency at Woodlawn while work on the main house is completed. |
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| 1829/01/10 |
Marquis de Lafayette |
Author |
La Grange to Woodlawn: Lafayette writes to Nelly Lewis that he is always glad to welcome her friends in France, that Miss Henrietta Douglas is in town and they talked of Woodlawn. He also comments on American election of 1828. |
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| 1846/00/00 |
Chalkley Gillingham |
Vocation |
The Troth-Gillingham Company, anti-slavery Quakers who want to show that plantations can be successful without slavery, buys the 2,000-acre Woodlawn Tract where the Woodlawn Meetinghouse and burial ground remain today. |
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| 1846/00/00 |
Delaware Valley Quakers |
Vocation |
Lorenzo Lewis sells the Woodlawn Tract to the Troth-Gillingham Co: Chalkley Gillingham, Jacob Troth, Lucas Gillingham and Paul Hillman Troth. The 2,030-acre parcel, sold at $12.50 per acre, consist of timber lands, meadows and cropland. |
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| 1847/00/00 |
Woodlawn Quaker Meeting |
Established |
After Chalkley Gillingham and partners buy the Woodlawn Tract, Woodlawn Quaker Meeting use the Woodlawn mansion as their first location for worship, and as a home base for new settlers while they built homes on their 100-200-acre farm tracts. |
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| 1852/00/00 |
Woodlawn Quaker Meeting |
Vocation |
By 1852, more than forty families have bought Woodlawn farmland or other parcels from Washington's slaveholding heirs and other plantation owners. |
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| 1853/00/00 |
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Jacob Troth sells Woodlawn to the Mason family, devout Baptists who will assist former slaves and other free blacks by helping them to acquire land, establish farms and become prosperous farmers. |
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| 1878/06/00 |
Rutherford B Hayes |
Visitor |
Rutherford and Lucy Hayes visit Woodlawn plantation and Grand View. |
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| 1905/00/00 |
Edward Wilton Donn Jr |
Architect |
Elizabeth M Sharpe hires Edward W Donn to rebuild the wings in a more sympathetic manner. |
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| 1910/00/00 |
Waddy Butler Wood |
Architect |
The dining room is restored and other alterations are made at Woodlawn under the direction of Waddy B Wood. |
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| 1929/00/00 |
Oscar Wilder Underwood |
Home |
Home of Senator Oscar Underwood, 1925-1929 |
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| 1929/01/25 |
Oscar Wilder Underwood |
Died |
Oscar Underwood dies at home |
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