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The History of Loudoun County, Virginia
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Indigenous Peoples’ Timeline
1700’s Timeline
1800’s Timeline
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Agriculture
Cornstalks Rooted In Area’s Agricultural History
Early 19th-Century Milling and Wheat Farming
Farm Life in the 18th Century
John Binns Improving Agriculture
Loudoun County Milling Co. Since 1907
Loudoun County’s Last Turkey Farm
Purcellville’s Orchard Grass Seed Mill
Time Stands Still at the Old Aldie Mill
African American
Chronology of African American History
African American Communities & Villages
Government and Law in the Path to Freedom, Justice and Racial Equality
Civil Rights in Middleburg
Farms Linked by Underground Railroad
For Some Slaves, Path to Freedom Was Far From Clear-Cut
Loudoun Slave Quarters
Underground Railroad – Journey to Freedom Was Risky
Zilpha Davis, a Freed Slave
Civil War
Loudoun County Civil War Timeline 1861- 1865
Union Troops Caught by Surprise at Ball’s Bluff
George K. Fox Saves the County Records
Loudoun County and the Civil War – A County Divided
Federal Occupation in Loudoun County during the Civil War
The Loudoun Rangers
History Affects 1860 Presidential Election Vote
The 1862 Civil War Skirmish at Leesburg
Mosby Walnut Tree – Witnessed and Made History
Trade Between Loudoun County and Maryland During the Civil War
The Reconstruction Years: Tales of Leesburg and Warrenton, Virginia
Loudoun County Burning Raid and John S. Mosby
Strategic Position Loudoun County in the Civil War
Battle of Unison 1862
Colonial
The Beginning of the County
How Loudoun County Got Its Name
Early Habits, Customs, and Dress
General Braddock’s March Through Loudoun in 1755
German Settlers Drawn to Loudoun County
Indigenous Peoples Left Their Mark in Naming Landmarks
Indigenous Peoples’ Mounds of Loudoun County
Indigenous Peoples of the Virginia Piedmont
Indigenous People to Speculators – the 1700’s
Piscataway – 1699 Encounter With Was a First
The Sioux encounter John Smith
John Champe, a Revolutionary War Double Agent
Loudoun Lee Made A Name for Himself
Towns & Places
Loudoun County Towns and Villages in 1908
Ashburn Village
Bluemont
The Carolina Road – Today’s Route 15
Dulles Airport Has Roots in Rural Black Community
Fairfax Boundary – Locating the 1649 Line
Goose Creek Canal – An Ill-fated 1830 Project
Limestone Overlay District
Hillsboro
Leesburg – Early History
Leesburg – Loudoun County Courthouse
Leesburg – Old Names Reveal Leesburg’s History and Lore
Lovettsville – A German Settlement
Paeonian Springs
Purcellville
Purcellville – Incorporated In 1908
Purcellville – Nichols Hardware, A Virginia Landmark
Purcellville – A Place Where Everyone Knew Its Nicknames
Round Hill
Round Hill – History of the Hill High Country Store
Snickersville Turnpike
Spotsylvania – Kenmore House, American Colonial Architecture
Sterling – Early History
Sterling Park – County’s Growth Battles Just Beginning 1961
Taylorstown Dam and the Catoctin Valley Defense Alliance
Unison
Waterford – A Quaker Village
Misc
Eugene Scheel – Historian
Iron Mining
Local Expressions from Bygone Times
Development of the Telephone
Loudoun Reaches No. 1 as Development Spreads [2002]
Early Post Offices in the County
Moonshiners
Transportation
Early Transportation in Loudoun County
Goose Creek Canal
A History of Roads
Washington and Old Dominion Railroad – At the End of the Line, An Opportunity Lost
White’s Ferry — The last working ferry on the Potomac
Weather
1912 – Great Cold Wave of January
1930 – Drought Gives Us A Preview of Next Time
1930 Drought – Recollections of area residents
2003 – Northeastern Snow Storm, President’s Day
2010 – Snowmageddon
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