History-Mystery
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Charles W. Johnson: The Spy Who Walked a Crooked Line
By Edward Spannaus The Charles Johnson who featured in the fracas following a Republican event in Waterford in November 1888 was no stranger to conflict – be it of the…
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History Mystery: John Axline’s Revolutionary War Service
By Edward Spannaus For some years, I have been puzzled by the oft-repeated story of Lovettsville’s John Axline in the Revolutionary War: that he alternately served in Lt. Col. Posey’s…
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Our April 2019 Newsletter is now available!
Our April newsletter has just been published. Read it here.
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Lovettsville History Mystery: The 1868 Fire At New Jerusalem Church
by Edward Spannaus, Board Member, Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum 150 years ago, on October 19, 1868, the congregation of Lovettsville’s largest church, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, laid the cornerstone…
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Civil War History Mystery: The Strange Case of the Disappearing Cavalry Captain, Fielding A. Patterson (2018)
by Edward Spannaus, Board Member, Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum The Loudoun Rangers, a Union scouting and cavalry unit, were initially recruited mostly from Lovettsville and Waterford in the summer…
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SOLVED: Lovettsville History-Mystery #4: Revolutionary War Hero Sgt. Lawrence Everhart (2018)
by Edward Spannaus, Researcher & Vice President, Lovettsville Historical Society. Sgt. Lawrence Everhart of Revolutionary War fame is claimed by both Lovettsville, Virginia, and by Middletown, in Frederick County, Maryland. …
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Lovettsville History-Mystery #3: Unidentified Civil War Soldier
Lovettsville History-Mystery #3: This antique photograph was found in a house in northern Loudoun County, Virginia. It appears to be a Union officer from the Civil War period. Can you…
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SOLVED: Lovettsville History-Mystery #2 (2016)
Lovettsville High School, Class of 1942 Group Photo Click on photo to download larger photo JPEG. First row (left to right): James “Jimmy” George, Edward Brooke, Vivian Viola McGaha (Lynn), Graham Spring,…