The Greenwood Museum at the 19th century Upperville Meeting House was created by artist

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in the 1980s. The Quaker meeting house was flanked by a park, a rectory and overlooked a waterfall on

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alongside Quaker Hill Road. Lindall gave the meeting house back to the Quakers of

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, to devote his energies to helping build one of

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's newest museums, the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

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