Month: January 2024
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Who was Tankerville? Part III: The Revolution Puts Tankerville Lands at Risk
By Edward Spannaus In Part II of this series, we learned that the Tankerville lands, as Loyalist properties, had been “sequestered” during the Revolutionary War, and saw how the Dowager…
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Reminder: Annual Membership Meeting 2024 on Sunday, January 14th
The Annual Meeting will include a report on highlights of our activities over the past year and the year to come, by our President Fred Lee George III – who…
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250th Anniversary of Boston Tea Party Marked in Leesburg
Kicking off the celebration of the Nation’s 250th Anniversary, events were held in Boston and around the county commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which took place…
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Defeating Slavery: Hamilton’s American System Showed the Way
Book Talk at Lovettsville MuseumSunday, January 21, at 3:00 p.m. Join public historian — and LHS member and volunteer — Nancy Spannaus to learn about her just-released book on America’s…
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Notice to LHS Members: Annual Membership Meeting of the Lovettsville Historical Society
Notice to LHS Members: Annual Membership Meetingof the Lovettsville Historical Society Sunday, January 14, at 2:00 p.m.St. James United Church of Christ10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville The Lovettsville Historical Society…
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Announcing our 2024 Lecture Series
We are pleased to announce the first four speakers in our Second Sunday Lecture Series: Feb. 11 — “Incident at Griffin’s Wharf: The Boston Tea Party and After.” Join Loudoun…
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Who was Tankerville? Part II: The Dowager and the General
By Edward Spannaus (Part I of this series, updated, may be found here.) In June 1783, as the Treaty of Paris to end the Revolutionary War was being finalized, the…