Lecture
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2024 Lecture Series:
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2024 Lecture Series: Summer Seminar on the American Revolution and its 250th Anniversary Sunday, July 14, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. St. James United Church of Christ,10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville VA…
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“For Britannia’s Glory and Wealth”: A report on the presentation by Glenn F. Williams
By Nancy Spannaus The March 10 lecture sponsored by the Lovettsville Historical Society focused on the American Revolution once again, with a presentation by well-known military historian Glenn F. Williams[1]…
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Kicking off the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2024 Lecture Series:
Incident at Griffin’s Wharf: The Boston Tea Party and After Presented by Tracy and Rich Gillespie Sunday, February 11, at 2:00 p.m. St. James United Church of Christ,10 East Broad…
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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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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2023 Lecture Series:
“Fashioning the Funeral: Mourning Wear and Customs in Civil War America“ Presented by Kelly Wenner White Sunday, October 8, at 2:00 p.m.St. James United Church of Christ,10 East Broad Way,…
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2023 Lecture Series:
“A Tale of Two Raids: Jeb Stuart’s Christmas Raid, and the Raid He Never Made” Presented by Robert O’Neill Sunday, September 10, at 2:00 p.m. St. James United Church of…
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The Geography of Slavery in Northern Loudoun County, Virginia
By: Eirik Frederick Harteis Introduction: On July 9, the Lovettsville Historical Society held a symposium on the topic of “Slavery in the German Settlement,” which featured a presentation by Eirik…
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2023 Lecture Series:
“Loudoun on the Eve of the American Revolution: A Patchwork Quilt of Diversity” Presented by Richard Treat Gillespie Sunday, August 13, at 2:00 p.m. In person or Live-streamed via Zoom St. James United…
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This Sunday, in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series:
Symposium: “Slavery in the German Settlement” Sunday, July 9, at 2:00 p.m.St. James United Church of Christ,10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, Va.On Sunday, July 9, in lieu of our customary…
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of St. Paul’s Church, Between the Hills
Presented by Pastor Roland England and friends Sunday, June 11, at 2:00 p.m.St. James United Church of Christ,10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, Va. On Sunday June 11, as the next…
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Press Release: April Lecture
What: Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture: “Their Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia from the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862” …
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2023 Lecture Series:
“Secrets of the C & O Canal” Presented by James Rada, Jr. Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 p.m. In person or Live-streamed via Zoom St. James United Church of Christ,10…
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LHS Lecture Series: Repudiation Day: Frederick County’s 1765 Protest Against the Stamp Act
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series: Repudiation Day: Frederick County’s 1765 Protest against the Stamp Act Presented by Chris Haugh, Frederick County Historian Sunday, November 13, at 2:00 p.m. In-person at St.…
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LHS Lecture Series – Robert Harper and the Quakers of Hopewell Meeting: An Unlikely Story of the Founding of Harpers Ferry
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series: Robert Harper and the Quakers of Hopewell Meeting: An Unlikely Story of the Founding of Harpers Ferry Presented by David T. Gilbert Sunday, October…
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George’s Mill Farm: Memories of the Past
Presented by Fran Wire to the Lovettsville Historical Society, May 20, 2018 Editor’s note: Following is the text of Fran Wire’s talk, presented as part of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s…
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Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series:
“Secrets of Catoctin Mountain: Little-Known Stories & Hidden History of Frederick & Loudoun Counties” Presented by author Jim Rada Sunday, August 21, at 2:00 p.m. In-person at Lovettsville Town Council…
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LHS’s Lecture Series – Lafayette’s Farewell Tour – 6/26/2022
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series: “Lafayette: Our Nation’s Adopted Son and His Farewell Tour of the America He Loved” Sunday, June 26, at 2:00 p.m. In-person at…
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LHS Lecture Series to resume with “The Loudouners who Challenged Thomas Jefferson”
Presented by Nancy B. Spannaus Sunday, March 13, at 2:00 p.m. In-person at Lovettsville Town Council Chamber (behind the Museum) and Online via Zoom After almost two years of suspension…
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Outline of the German role in the Revolutionary War
Outline of the German role in the Revolutionary War (The following are notes prepared by Edward Spannaus for his presentation in the September 11, 2011 lecture on “The German Settlement…
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Postponed: April 19 “Loudoun County: Federalist Stronghold in Virginia”
It is well-known that Alexander Hamilton’s vision of America’s future as an industrialized nation was not broadly popular in Virginia, where the opposition was led by Thomas Jefferson. But…
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August 11 — Daniel Morgan: American Rifleman
Daniel Morgan: American Rifleman – The Life and Military Career of one of General George Washington’s Most Effective Commanders of the Revolutionary War Presented by Randolph G. Flood Founder of the…
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July 14: Geniuses of the Frontier: James Rumsey and John Hall
Making Something out of Nothing: Geniuses of the Frontier — James Rumsey and John H. Hall Presented by Jim Surkamp Sunday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. Within a forty-year span…
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June 9: Walter Fleming — Growing Up Lovettsville
Growing Up Lovettsville: When A Farm Boy Drove the School Bus An Illustrated Reminiscence with Walter M. Fleming Sunday, June 9, 2:00 p.m. Slideshow by Becky H. Fleming Rich Gillespie,…
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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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Capt. Luther W. Slater: A Life of Service
By Edward Spannaus Luther Slater is the only commissioned Union officer from the Civil War who is buried in Lovettsville. He was the highest-ranking elected officer in the Independent…
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April 14 lecture: The National Road — the Road that Built a Nation.
Presented by Tiffany Ahalt, National Road Museum, Boonsboro, Maryland Sunday, April 14, at 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, April 14, Tiffany Ahalt, the Marketing & Development Director for the National…
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Feb. 10 Lecture: “Armistead Thompson Mason Filler 1821-1897, and Linden Hall” (2/10/19)
Presented by Bart Hodgson, Co-Proprietor, Linden Hall B&B Sunday, Feb. 10 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, February 10, for the launching of Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2019 Lecture Series, we…
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Lovettsville Historical Society Announces 2019 Lecture Series
The Lovettsville Historical Society has announced the first half of its 2019 lecture series, for the months from February through June. The line-up is: February 10 – “Armistead Thompson Mason…
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“’Over There’ Comes to Main Street: Loudoun and the First World War, 1917-18,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (11/18/2018)
On Sunday afternoon November 18, 2018 at 2:00 pm, the Lovettsville Historical Society will contribute to Virginia and Loudoun’s centennial commemoration of the First World War with an engaging program…
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Dr. James Willard and Willard Hall, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (10/14/2018)
Presented by Cookie Anagnoson, owner of Willard Hall, & Michael Zapf, LHS Researcher, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m. On Sunday, October 14, 2018, the Lovettsville Historical Society will present a discussion of Willard…
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“Antietam Shadows: Mystery, Myth & Machination,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (9/16/2018)
Presented by Dennis Frye, Chief Historian, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 at 2:00 pm, at St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, VA…
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“The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2018 Lecture Series (8/12/2018)
Presented by Author, Jim Hall, Sunday, August 12, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m. Jim Hall, a career journalist with the daily Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, has long been fascinated with one of the…
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“Waterford: A Village in Time,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (6/10/2018)
Presented by author Neil Hughes Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. For the past 30 years, Neil Hughes has lived in an 1819 house in the National Historic Landmark…
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“George’s Mill Farm: Memories of the Past,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (5/20/2018)
Presented by Fran Wire, Proprietor George’s Mill Farm B&B Sunday, May 20, 2018 @ 2:00 pm Memories of the past at George’s Mill Farm will brought to mind on Sunday, May…
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VIDEO: “Mary Quantrill: The Real ‘Barbara Fritchie,'” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (4/8/2018)
Presented by Chris Haugh, Frederick County Historian, Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Chris Haugh, Frederick County historian and the Historic Preservation Manager of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland,…
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“Life on the Inner Frontier: The French and Indian War in Memory and Artifact in the Shenandoah Valley,” Next Lecture in Lovettsville Historical Society Series (3/11/2018)
Patrick Murphy, author of the award-winning book “The French & Indian War in the Shenandoah Valley: Life on the Inner Frontier 1752-1766,” is the next featured lecturer in the Lovettsville Historical Society…
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VIDEO: “The Washington Family Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia,” Next In the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series (2-11-2018)
The Lovettsville Historical Society will open its 2018 lecture series on February 11, with a presentation by Walter Washington of Charles Town which will chronicle the migration of the Washington family…
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Upcoming Lovettsville Historical Society Lectures (2018)
Upcoming Lectures: All Lovettsville Historical Society lectures are held at 2:00 on Sunday afternoons, at St. James United Church of Christ in Lovettsville, VA. They are free and open to…
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Remembering John Hanson: The First President of the United States, Presented by Peter H. Michael, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series (11/5/2017)
[Technical Note: the clicking sound during the first seven minutes of the video has been identified as a ballpoint pen]. On November 5, 1781 – just weeks after the…
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VIDEO: “Mapping the Short Hill With Eugene Scheel” (10/15/2017)
VIDEO: “Mapping the Short Hill With Eugene Scheel” (2017) is the recording of a lecture hosted by the Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, October 15, 2017. Watch and hear the fascinating…
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“Mapping the Short Hill” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series (10/15/17)
Loudoun County’s pre-eminent map-maker and historian, Eugene Scheel, will discuss the making of his latest map on Sunday, October 15, 2017, as part of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s monthly Lecture…
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“The Story of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (9/17/2017)
“The Story of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church,” Lecture at St. James United Church of Christ, Lovettsville, VA, Sunday, September 17, 2017, 2:00 pm. Mount Olivet United Methodist Church is one…
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VIDEO: “Hope On the Hill: Harpers Ferry’s Storer College,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (8/13/2017)
“Hope On the Hill: Harpers Ferry’s Storer College,” Presented by Guinevere Roper, Park Ranger, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 2:00 pm, St. James United Church…
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The Edwin Washington Project: Documenting Pre-Integration Schools of Loudoun County, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series (7/9/2017)
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series: The Edwin Washington Project, Documenting Pre-Integration Schools of Loudoun County, Presented by Larry Roeder, Principal Investigator, Sunday, July 9, 2017, 2:00…
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“Colonial Life in Maryland and Virginia,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Free Lecture Series (6/11/2017)
COLONIAL LIFE IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Free Lecture Series, Presented by Prof. Paul D. McDermott, Sunday, June 11, 2017, at 2:00 pm On…
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POSTPONED: “Mapping the Short Hill,” Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series (10/15/2017)
POSTPONED: “Mapping the Short Hill,” the lecture by historian and mapmaker Eugene Scheel, originally planned for May 21, is being postponed, because the memorial service for Clifton T. Walker —…
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“Myths About Lee’s Surrender,” Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series (4/23/2017)
Presented by Patrick Schroeder, Historian, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Sunday, April 23, at 2:00 pm, St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, VA. The Lovettsville Historical…
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Lovettsville Historical Society Free Lecture Series: C.F. Wenner and C&O Canal Navigation at the Opening of the Civil War (3/12/2017)
C. F. Wenner and C&O Canal Navigation at the Opening of the Civil War, Presented by Tim Snyder, Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 2:00 pm, St. James United Church of…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: The Ground Beneath Your Feet, The Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County (2/19/2017)
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series: The Ground Beneath Your Feet: The Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County, Presented by Wynne Saffer, Sunday, February 19, at 2:00…
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LHS Free Lecture Series, “The First Front: The Baltimore & Ohio Railway During the Civil War,” by Daniel Carroll Toomey (2017)
January 29, 2017 – “The First Front: The Baltimore & Ohio Railway During the Civil War,” by Daniel Carroll Toomey. On Sunday, January 29, the Lovettsville Historical Society will kick off its 2017…
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“Living Legend of Lovettsville #1: Jimmy Spring” (12/11/2016)
WATCH THE JIMMY SPRING VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ONLINE at https://vimeo.com/195151504 . This documentary is the story of a Living Legend of Lovettsville, farmer Jimmy Spring, 95 years young. A “legend” is a…
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Legends of Lovettsville Lecture Series Launches (2016)
http://loudounnow.com/2016/12/02/legends-of-lovettsville-series-launches-on-sunday/
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “The Great Lovettsville Plane Crash of 1940” (2016)
WATCH THE VIDEO “The Plane Crash by John P. Flannery” at https://vimeo.com/191335903 . See our archive of documents and photographs at 1940 Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Trip 19 Disaster Archive PRESS RELEASE: What: Lovettsville…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “The One That Got Away: How Virginia Lost Mr. Jefferson’s County” (2016)
On Sunday, October 9, 2016, Doug Perks, Chief Historian of the Jefferson County Museum in Charles Town, will discuss the formation of the State of West Virginia during the Civil…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His – and the Nation’s–Prosperity” (2016)
On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, historian and professor Edward Lengel will present a little-known side of George Washington: his skills as a businessman and manager, and how he used these…
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Lovettsville Historical Society Explores Washington the Businessman – LoudounNow (2016)
George Washington’s entrepreneurial skills will be the focus of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s next lecture. University of Virginia History Professor Edward G. Lengel will present “First Entrepreneur: How George Washington…
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LHS Lecture Series: Prelude to the Revolution – The French-Indian War on the Maryland and Virginia Frontier (2016)
Presented by Tim Rowland, Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm, St. James UCC Church, Lovettsville, Virginia. New York Times bestselling author Tim Rowland discussed Prelude to the Revolution: The French and…
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A Note on “The German Settlement” in the French-Indian War (2016)
At our August, 2016 lecture on the French-Indian War, the question was raised as to who from the German Settlement (as the area surrounding present-day Lovettsville was once known) participated…
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LHS Lecture Series: The Forgotten Story of Petersville, Maryland (2016)
Presented by Jody Brumage, Sunday, July 17, 2016 Petersville, Maryland — which lies just north of Brunswick — is one of the oldest and yet most overlooked communities in the…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “Freedom Lodge and the Birth of Freemasonry in Lovettsville” (2016)
The birth of Freemasonry in Lovettsville took place 150 years ago – just months after the end of the Civil War – when the Grand Lodge, Ancient, Free, & Accepted…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: Lovettsville’s Oldest Church – St. James at 283 Years, From German Reformed to United Church of Christ (2016)
Lecture, Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm. The 283-year history of Lovettsville’s old German Reformed Church, now St. James United Church of Christ, will be the topic of the…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “George Washington Did NOT Build the C&0 Canal: The Story of Potomac River Navigation and the Rise and Demise of the C&O Canal” (2016)
April 6, 2016, LoudounNow. The next presentation in the Lovettsville Historical Society lecture series has a provocative title: “George Washington DID NOT Build the C&0 Canal: The Story of Potomac…
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Historian John Frye Speaks at Lovettsville Lecture Series – Purcellville Gazette (2016)
Historian John Frye will discuss the fascinating story of the C&O Canal and the history of transportation along the Potomac River. This is the third lecture in the Lovettsville Historical…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “Look Out Below: The Surprising Geology of the Brunswick-Lovettsville Area” (2016)
Presented by Don Peterson Sunday, March 13, 2016 On Sunday, March 13, 2016, local naturalist and writer Don Peterson will discuss the geology of the Brunswick-Lovettsville area, as the second…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “1866: Change, Resistance, and Uncertainty in the Northern Virginia Piedmont” (2016)
The Sixth in a Series of Local Civil War Glimpses Presented by Richard Gillespie Sunday, February 14, 2016 Richard T. Gillespie, the Executive Director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association,…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “250 Years of New Jerusalem Lutheran Church and Its Place In the Lovettsville Community” – Loudoun Times Mirror (2015)
LOVETTSVILLE LIVING: Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series final presentation Blog entry by John McNeilly | Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 On Sunday, Nov. 8, the Lovettsville Historical Society will hold its…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “Luther Potterfield and the Lovettsville Potterfields: A Divided Family” – Loudoun Times Mirror (2015)
By John McNeilly, Loudoun Times Mirror, September 18, 2015. LOVETTSVILLE LIVING: Lovettsville Historical Society announces new lecture. The Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture series will present “Luther Potterfield and the Lovettsville…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “John Mobberly: Loudoun County Civil War Desperado” – Leesburg Today (2015)
by Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, March 2, 2015. The Lovettsville Historical Society’s next lecture on local history refers to a historic figure with a less than savory reputation. The March 8,…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: 1865: “Great God! Take Care of Us Now!” with Rich Gillespie, the Fifth in a Series on the Civil War in the Mosby Heritage Area (2015)
“Great God! Take Care of Us Now!” with Rich Gillespie, The Fifth in a Series on the Civil War in the Mosby Heritage Area. SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2015 at 3 o’clock…
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Lovettsville Historical Society Kicks Off 2015 Lecture Series – Purcellville Gazette (2015)
On Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, the Lovettsville Historical Society will kick off its 2015 Lecture Series with the fifth installment in a series of Sesquicentennial glimpses of the local experience before and…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “Save the Historic Stoutsenberger Farmstead” – Purcellville Gazette (2013)
The project to save the historical farmstead of Revolutionary War veteran John Stoutsenberger will be the subject of the next event in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series. It will…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African-Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War” – Purcellville Gazette (2013)
Purcellville Gazette June 9, 2013 The unknown story of the approximately 250 African-American soldiers from Loudoun County who served in the Union Army during the Civil War has been discovered…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “The Potomac Frontier: Loudoun County In 1862” – Loudoun Times Mirror (2012)
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, by Stephen Johnson, Special to the Loudoun Times-Mirror. Rich Gillespie, director of education for the Mosby Heritage Area Association, will speak on “The Potomac Frontier: Loudoun…
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LHS Free Lecture Series: “The Way It Was: Reminiscences of Old Lovettsville” – Blue Ridge Leader (2011)
Blue Ridge Leader September 28, 2011 Lifelong Lovettsville resident Glenn Grove will discuss life in Old Lovettsville, especially the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, as the next event in the Lovettsville…
