I would like to know more about the Quaker Meeting House on Goose Creek. I have CANDLER ancestors, Quakers who moved from South River to Goose Creek. I assumed (probably incorrectly) that they moved just a short ways from the present Lynchburg because their children appeared in Campbell Co.a short time later. Linda Johns wrote: > hortonmay@aol.com wrote: > > > > Linda, I think that Goose Creek starts above Montvale and meanders in a SE > > direction. > > EH May > > Bedford Va > > Hi, > > You know someone else corrected me on that. I told them that this is > what comes from living down here in the flatlands so long...we can't > figure out which way water flows. And to further complicate matters, > the St. Johns, Florida's largest river, which is not far from me, > actually does flow north for some 250 miles to the Atlantic Ocean. > Check it out. > > I have no idea why I started out describing Goose Creek backwards. Brain > fade, I suppose. Anyway, to one and all, it starts up there in the > mountains, near Powell's Gap, and heads south along the same general > path described, but in reverse. I guess I just don't know of any rivers > in Virginia that flow north... > > Kathy, were your ancestors Quaker, by any chance? There's a famous > Quaker Meeting House on Goose Creek. > > Linda in Florida, amid the smoke and ash > > ==== VABEDFOR Mailing List ==== > The VAGenWeb's QueryPage for the "Unknown County" is at URL: > http://people.delphi.com/fspradlin/vaquery.htm