Prepared Remarks of Edward Spannaus* At the outset of the Civil War, Lovettsville and the German Settlement (as the surrounding area was known), was in a strategic location, in a prosperous valley adjoining the border […]
By Albert Eisele | 09/03/09 LOVETTSVILLE, VA. — Paul Wellstone wasn’t the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along […]
by David Maurer The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA March 1, 2009 The skies above Charlottesville were cloudy, and rain was expected before nightfall on Aug. 31, 1940. That Saturday morning Mrs. Ralph Hale had said goodbye […]
by Glenn L. Grove The museum housed in the old butcher shop is a great asset to the town of Lovettsville. However most of the buildings are gone and probably no photos of the property […]
Jump in our Wayback Machine to the days of VHS videotapes, and watch two back-to-back Lovettsville Episodes of the public access television program Loudoun Scrapbook on YouTube. Guests interviewed and people thanked by the producers […]
Did you know that Lovettsville’s downtown district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places? And that Lovettsville is the only town or village in Loudoun County with a museum dedicated to its own […]
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 Lovettsville, her home for more […]
“It was felt by the Lovettsville Bicentennial Committee, when planning an activity for the fall of 1976, that since Lovettsville was settled by Germans in the 1730s, it would enrich our celebrations if we used […]
[Excerpted from the book “Lovettsville, The German Settlement” by Yetive Weatherly, published in 1976] In 1923, Robert Grubb’s general store, located in midtown Lovettsville on the corner of Broadway and Loudoun Street (now McClain’s Store) […]
From the Introduction to the Book “Lovettsville, The German Settlement,” edited by Yetive Weatherly Like other communities all over the United States, our community in Lovettsville is presenting the public with a series of […]
Interest in Loudoun County, Virginia history has been running high these days, especially around Lovettsville, where last week the Home Demonstration Club, in support of the Bicentennial, sold more pins, bonnets and derbies than any […]
The Piedmont Virginian, September 3, 1975 With fanfare and speeches, the Lovettsville Restoration Committee began its first Bicentennial project Saturday, August 30 [1975]. The committee project for under way with demolition of a lean-to built […]
Metro Virginia News Leesburg, VA Sunday December 1, 1974 The town of Lovettsville, in a community bicentennial effort, will restore the town’s old butcher shop for use as a library and museum of town artifacts. […]
When the Lovettsville Alumni Association holds its annual banquet Saturday night, it will not only be celebrating its 50th anniversary but also paying tribute to two grand ladies who have helped keep it going. “I started […]
Amid a beautiful setting of canlabra, palms, farm, gladioli and mums, Miss Elaine Dolores Painter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Painter of Lovettsville, and Clifton Thomas Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Walker […]
LIFE Magazine, March 10, 1941, page 27 [On August 31, 1940] Into a cornfield [near Lovettsville, VA] crashed a Pennsylvania-Central Airlines plane killing all 25 people aboard, including U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen. The CAA gave […]
REPORT OF THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD Of the investigation of an accident involving aircraft of United States registry NC 21789, which occurred near Lovettsville, Virginia, on August 31, 1940 P. C. A. http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov/Document?db=DOT-AIRPLANEACCIDENTS&query=(select+88) TABLE OF […]
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 a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport […]
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C, GRAVURE SECTION SEPTEMBER 8, 1940 “TRAGEDY ON THE AIRWAYS” Jumbled wreckage of crashed airliner as night falls on gruesome scene where 25 persons met death near Lovettsville, Virginia in the worst […]
Farm Boy Tells Story of Plane Crash Killing 25 Testifies at Inquiry by Aeronautics Board Chicago Daily Tribune, September 7, 1940, page 8 Chicago Tribune Press Service Washington, D.C., September 6, 1940 Warren McGaha, 13 years […]
25 Killed When Passenger Plane Crashes Senator Lundeen of Minnesota Is One of Air Tragedy Victims Several Government Officials Lose Lives in Worst Airplane Accident U. S. Has Even Seen; Probe Is On The Coshocton […]
25 DIE IN AIRPLANE CRASH; SEN. LUNDEEN AMONG VICTIMS 21 Passengers and Four Crew Members Reported Dead; Worst Disaster in U. S. Commercial Aviation History The Zanesville Signal Ohio, September 1, 1940 Lovettsville, Va., Aug. […]
25 Dead in Crash of Air Transport; Lundeen Is Killed In Virginia Storm Crash Near Mountain in Fog and Rain Startles Village Dwellers By Telephone to THE NEW YORK TIMES LOVETTSVILLE, Va., Aug. 31, 1940 […]
Town of Brunswick Escapes With Comparatively Slight Damages, But B&O Railroad Suffers Heavy Losses From Water Which Covered Yards.Reprinted from The Brunswick Citizen, May 5 & 12 & 19, 1983 issues; originally appeared in the Brunswick […]
Loss of $20,000 Sustained in Midnight Blaze in Virginia Town Family Flees From Apartment to Safety Brunswick Fire Engine Saves Little Town From Total Destruction — The Frederick Maryland News September 11, 1923 Fire […]
Down the Old Potomac On the C&O Canal; A Thomas Edison Film (1917) This silent, black & white film from 1917 gives a rare glimpse of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which parallels the Potomac River […]
“The Pennsylvania Germans in Loudoun County, Virginia,” by Briscoe Goodhart. A chapter excerpted from The Pennsylvania German, Volume 9, A Popular Magazine of Biography, History, Genealogy, Folklore, Literature, Etc., dated 1908, pp. 125-133. The history of […]
[Source: “The Pennsylvania German”, Volume 9 by Philip Columbs Croll, Henry Addison Schuler, Howard Wiegner Kriebel; March 1908] The first white people to locate in Loudoun County, Virginia, as actual settlers came in 1732. The […]
“The German Settlement,” by Goodhart, Briscoe. [from old catalog], Published 1900, PDF download: 1900-the-german-settlement-book-by-briscoe-goodhart . Download other formats at: https://archive.org/details/germansettlement00good . Publisher [Hamilton, Loudoun telephone office Pages 68 Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language English Call number 7254536 Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation Book contributor The Library of […]
Cropped detail of the area of Lovettsville, Virginia and environs from the Civil War map titled “1863 Map of Fauquier & Loudon [sic] Counties, Virginia, By order of Lt. Col. William. P. Smith, Chief Engineer, […]
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