Woodlawn Quaker Meeting, now the Alexandria Monthly Meeting, are a religious community who gather in silence in the presence of God. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Person | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Chalkley Gillingham | 1847 | 1881 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1784/00/00 | The Alexandria Monthly Meeting begin burials at the Queen Street Burial Ground near N Columbus and Queen Streets. They will utilize the graveyard until the 1880s. | Vocation | Columbus and Queen Streets District | Alexandria | |||
| 1811/00/00 | Alexandria Meetinghouse, constructed in 1811 was discontinued as a meetinghouse in the 1880s. | Vocation | Columbus and Queen Streets District | Alexandria | |||
| 1847/00/00 | 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. | Established | Woodlawn Plantation | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1848/00/00 | Friends move their place of worship to the Miller's Cottage at George Washington's Gristmill. Each place of worship also serves as a school. | Vocation | George Washington's Distillery and Gristmill | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1851/00/00 | The Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse is built on farmland donated Chalkley Gillingham as a single room, now the southern half, 1851-1853. Exterior door and window moldings are beaded and the cornerboards are quirked. | History | Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1852/00/00 | By 1852, more than forty families have bought Woodlawn farmland or other parcels from Washington's slaveholding heirs and other plantation owners. | Vocation | Woodlawn Plantation | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1864/00/00 | Many of the families of the Alexandria Monthly Meeting, then Woodlawn's parent meeting, flee their homes in Alexandria city during the Civil War. | Vocation | Columbus and Queen Streets District | Alexandria | |||
| 1869/00/00 | The Woodlawn Meetinghouse is doubled in size and its interior remodeled to accommodate separate men's and women's meetings. The two rooms are designed in the center-aisle, single-cell plan that is common in many earlier Quaker meetinghouses. | Vocation | Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1885/00/00 | After the Alexandria Friends sell the meetinghouse in Alexandria, the Alexandria Monthly Meeting alternates between Woodlawn and the I Street Meeting in Washington. | Vocation | Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse | Mt Vernon, VA | |||
| 1937/00/00 | The City of Alexandria, through a long-term lease from the Meeting, dedicate Queen Street Burial Ground for construction of the Queen Street Library. The graves are to remain, unmarked and undisturbed. | Vocation | Columbus and Queen Streets District | Alexandria | |||
| 1995/00/00 | In the 1990s, the City of Alexandria moves salvaged headstones from the Queen Street Burial Ground in Alexandria to a mound of earth in the wooded area behind the Woodlawn Meetinghouse. | Vocation | Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse | Mt Vernon, VA |
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