The Farm

Oakland Green is a working 200 acre cattle farm which dates to the 1730s. Richard Brown, a Quaker who had migrated south from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, had settled in what’s now Taylorstown, in northern Loudoun County. He travelled a bit south to the area then known only to a few other Quaker settlers as Goose Creek (now Lincoln). He and his son Henry built a homestead house out of log for Henry’s small family. Shortly after they got a roof over their heads they added a stone section in 1740 to the log cabin for the SIX children they produced in a two room house. (!) As it goes, the house was added to again in 1790 with expanding families and multiple generations. Through the 1800s Oakland Green was at times an orchard and a dairy with the addition of the barn in 1850.