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Sept. 22 — LHS Fundraiser and Membership Appreciation Event
Celebrating Lovettsville: Annual Lovettsville Historical Society Fundraiser & Membership Appreciation Event Sunday, Sept. 22, at 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. The Board of Directors of the Lovettsville Historical…
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Purcellville Gazette: Lovettsville Museum Renovations Showcase New Interpretive Displays, New Sign Welcomes Visitors (11/30/2018)
[slideshow_deploy id=’3071′] Reprinted with permission from the Purcellville Gazette, November 30, 2018 Issue Photographs by Eric Wickstrom The Lovettsville Museum’s new scarlet red sign was hung on the west…
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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 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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Historical Society Marks Four Decades of Telling Lovettsville’s Stories – LoudounNow (2016)
By Margaret Morton, LoudounNow, February 4, 2016. As the Lovettsville Historical Society opens its 2016 lecture series next Sunday, Feb. 14, it also is marking four decades of telling the stories…
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A Veterans Day Salute in Lovettsville – Purcellville Gazette (2015)
by Liz Tenney Jarvis, Purcellville Gazette November 13, 2015 On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Veterans are remembered and saluted for their service…
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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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1860s Autograph Book Returns to Lovettsville, Will Be Opened at Museum on Saturday (2014)
Press Advisory: Where: Lovettsville Museum, 4 East Broad Way. When: 2:00 pm, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. An autograph book from the Civil War era, identified as belonging to Kate Souder…
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19th Century Book Returns To Lovettsville – Leesburg Today (2014)
by Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, November 7, 2014. An autograph book from the Civil War era will come home to Lovettsville Saturday, November 7, 2014, where it will be welcomed…
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Beloved Lovettsville Teacher Retires After Decades of Service – Purcellville Gazette (2014)
by Rachel Leon, Purcellville Gazette June 5, 2014 Lovettsville Elementary 5th grade teacher Edward Davis retires this month after 39 years of teaching, 21 of which were spent in Lovettsville.His…
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New Lovettsville Community Center Faces Opposition – Loudoun Times Mirror (2014)
By John McNeilly, Loudoun Times Mirror, April 7, 2014. The Phase I rendering of the proposed new community center in Lovettsville. Loudoun County and officials with the Town of Lovettsville are…
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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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Ghosts of the Union’s Black Soldiers Rise From Loudoun County’s Past – Washington Post (2013)
By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post, March 2, 2013. Kevin Dulany Grigsby, author of “From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil…
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Lovettsville Historic District Listed on National Register of Historic Places – Leesburg Today (2012)
By Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, August 24, 2012. Lovettsville has become the latest western Loudoun municipality to win state and national designation for its historic assets. The National Park Service…
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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…
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1774 George’s Mill Petition Shared At Lovettsville’s Artifact Day – Leesburg Today (2010)
By Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, July 29, 2010. Imposing brick, stone or wood mills once were a common sight around Loudoun, a sign of its thriving agricultural economy. They were usually…
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Newcomers Strain Little Lovettsville – Washington Post (1989)
By Cornelius F. Foote Jr., Washington Post, November 25, 1989. Nancy Orndorff, 54, describes herself as a die-hard resident of Loudoun County. But more than that, she is sold on…
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Airplane Crackup, Worst Crash In History, Kills Senator Lundeen – LIFE Magazine (1940)
LIFE Magazine, September 16, 1940: “AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN” The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. That afternoon…
