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The History of Loudoun County, Virginia
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    • Yardley Taylor 1854 Map
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  • Timelines
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    • Indigenous Peoples’ Timeline
    • 1700’s Timeline
    • 1800’s Timeline
    • 1900’s Timeline
    • African American Timeline
  • 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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Upcoming Events & Lectures

Here are links to events related to Loudoun County history.

  • Lovettsville Historical Society
  • Mosby Heritage Area
  • Thomas Balch Library
  • Waterford Foundation

 

 

 

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