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Gleedsville Cemetery

UNITED STATES - 01-02-2017: Here an old wooden cross rest in the woods at Gleedsville Cemetery South of Leesburg. This is one of the largest African American cemeteries in Loudoun County in the old settlement of Gleedsville. In the years after general emancipation, on a nearby ridge known as Negro Mountain, freed people from Oatlands established a small settlement. The community was called Gleedsville, for a leader among them, John “Jack” Gleed. In 1880, after building homes and cultivating their farms, the men founded the Mountain Gap Odd Fellows Lodge and built a meeting hall. Ten years later, the women organized a Household of Ruth auxiliary. In 1889 the school board established Mountain Gap (Colored) School, which looked much like the red-painted school of the same name built on Route 15 for white students. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now)

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UNITED STATES - 01-02-2017: Here an old wooden cross rest in the woods at Gleedsville Cemetery South of Leesburg. This is one of the largest African American cemeteries in Loudoun County in the old settlement of Gleedsville. In the years after general emancipation, on a nearby ridge known as Negro Mountain, freed people from Oatlands established a small settlement. The community was called Gleedsville, for a leader among them, John “Jack” Gleed. In 1880, after building homes and cultivating their farms, the men founded the Mountain Gap Odd Fellows Lodge and built a meeting hall. Ten years later, the women organized a Household of Ruth auxiliary. In 1889 the school board established Mountain Gap (Colored) School, which looked much like the red-painted school of the same name built on Route 15 for white students. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now)