Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse
- Also Known As: Woodlawn Friends Meeting House
- Address: 8990 Woodlawn Rd
- Neighborhood of Woodlawn in Mt Vernon, VA
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1846/00/00 | Chalkley Gillingham | Vocation | Anti-slavery Delaware Valley Quakers, buy the entire Woodlawn tract to establish a showcase plantation can be successful without slave labor. | |||
| 1849/00/00 | Quaker settlers Thomas and Sarah Wright erect a log addition to their neighboring farmhouse, to be used as meetinghouse and school until the Woodlawn Meetinghouse is built. | |||||
| 1850/00/00 | Chalkley Gillingham | Vocation | Chalkley Gillingham and Kezia his wife grant for the use and benefit of the Religious Society of Friends for the purpose of a Meeting place and burial ground, or otherwise, under the direction of the Monthly Meeting of which Friends of Woodlawn may form. | |||
| 1851/00/00 | Woodlawn Quaker Meeting | History | 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. | |||
| 1862/00/00 | Union soldiers carve initials, names and a small sword-shaped cross into the weatherboard to the right of the double entryway, the building's main entrance during the Civil War. Marks include "W Long Manayunk PA, "AW Hepbum PA," and "I" Mich Cav." | |||||
| 1862/00/00 | Chalkley Gillingham | Vocation | Chalkley Gillingham writes that some of the benches are destroyed by Union soldiers occupying the Woodlawn Meetinghouse. The current benches, which feature dovetails joining seat braces to the ends, likely date from after the Civil War. | |||
| 1869/00/00 | Woodlawn Quaker Meeting | Vocation | 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. | |||
| 1881/01/22 | Chalkley Gillingham | Died | Chalkley Gillingham dies in Woodlawn, Fairfax County, Virginia. He is buried at the Woodlawn Friends Meeting House Cemetery. Over 100 headstones mark the birth and death dates of his family, descendants and others. | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Woodlawn Quaker Meeting | Vocation | After the Alexandria Friends sell the meetinghouse in Alexandria, the Alexandria Monthly Meeting alternates between Woodlawn and the I Street Meeting in Washington. | |||
| 1995/00/00 | Woodlawn Quaker Meeting | Vocation | 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. |
| Particulars for Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Owner | Private |
| Building Plan | Quaker Plain Style |
| Area of Significance | Religion |
| Building Use | Religious Meeting House |
| Historic Use | Religious Property |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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