Show make fine farms of fertile fields once owned by the first president the quakers of woodlawn va are an folk the lands they ive on are the lands george wash ing on tilled with slave labor the fesui part of mount vernon the wash agton estate outside of the man on house and abo t acres un der control of the mount vernon la ates association Is occupied mainly by friends an exchange says the era of the mount vernon region are perhaps peerless certainly anex celled in thrift neatness orderliness and those other qualities that corn d sting the members of thi lec they are especially well n the life and times of the BI the ast half of the e d fenry obaed the lands 1 ey ho d athe memory 6 quakers of woodlawn because the pioneers of the society settled on the woodlawn lands woodlawn Wood lawa being the name of the estate of lawrence lewis washington s nephew and his eife curtis which estate was carved out of the mount vernon pi op erty and given by washington to lew is and his wife at the time of their marriage at mount vernon on wash b ten months be fore the first president s death the friends are not now settled alt ogeth cr on he woodlawn lands many of etem having bought into other parts ot the mount vernon plantation or are all the dwellers of the woodlawn lans friends though most of them are it Is natural to speak of this immunity as a settlement yet the bends are scattered over several s of country they are all farm nd the farms are large el t rather ith teller 1 |