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 narrative, a story, like the […]
Legends of Lovettsville Series Launches on Sunday
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, Evelyn Myers, Betty Wire, and […]
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 Historical Society Lecture: “THE GREAT […]
This “West End, Lovettsville” postcard, with a 1915 postmark, was found in a Harrisonburg, Va. antique shop by Dick Hickman, who grew up in the house on the right, and whose mother, Sue Wire Hickman […]
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 War, and Jefferson County’s role […]
LOVETTSVILLE HISTORY-MYSTERY #1: Can you help the Lovettsville Museum by telling us anything you might know about the “Willow Bend Inn,” J.F. McCormick, proprietor? According to the cover on this matchbook purchased on eBay, the Willow Bend […]
This year was the most successful Oktoberfest yet, both for the Town of Lovettsville and for the Lovettsville Museum. Our estimate is that we had around 600 people coming into the Museum. We were open […]
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 talents to build the new […]
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 Built His—and the Nation’s — […]
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 Indian War on the Maryland-Virginia […]
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 in the French-Indian War. Loudoun […]
At our Annual Meeting on July 31, 2016 the members of the Lovettsville Historical Society elected the new Board of Directors for 2016-17. Following the Annual Meeting, the new Board of Directors convened, and elected […]
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 Middletown Valley. Most people from […]
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 Masons, of Virginia, at the […]
In addition to a number of original news photographs taken at the scene of the Aug. 31, 1940 airliner crash near Lovettsville, the Lovettsville Museum successfully bid on the copy of the New York Times which reported […]
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 next presentation in the Lovettsville […]
The Lovettsville Museum has recently acquired a number of original news photographs taken at the scene of the Aug. 31, 1940 airliner crash near Lovettsville. And as a result of the articles written by John […]
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 River Navigation and the Rise […]
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 Society’s 2016 Lecture Series, titled, […]
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 presentation in the Lovettsville Historical […]
by John P. Flannery. Article originally published on February 18, 2016 by The Brunswick Citizen. Reprinted with permission. On Sunday, [Feb. 14, 2016], Richard Gillespie, [then] Executive Director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, caused the St. James […]
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, will once again kick off […]
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 of the community’s people and […]
Dear Mr. Flannery, I am a Brunswick Citizen reader and a former Lovettsvillian married to a Braunsweigerin. We are now retired and in our 80s and for better or worse living in Salem, Virginia, close […]
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 to their country. What began in […]
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 final presentation of their 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 Potterfields: A Divided Family,” at […]
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, 2015 presentation-“”John Mobberly: Loudoun County Civil […]
“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 P.M.; Goose Creek Friends Meeting, […]
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 during the Civil War, featuring […]
Lovettsville Girl Scout Troop 1434 earned their “Playing the Past” badge by visiting the Lovettsville Historical Society on Sunday, November 23, 2014. The group of 5th graders learned about daily life in the era before electricity, […]
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 of Loudoun County, has been […]
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 with gratitude at the Lovettsville […]
Remarks delivered by Edward Spannaus at the Lovettsville Alumni Association Dinner, June 14, 2014, based on a memorandum prepared by Spannaus when he served on the Lovettsville Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee in 2010-11. I always […]
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 last day is June 17, […]
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 proposing to tear down the […]
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 be held on Sunday, September […]
Press Release: What: Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture: “From Loudoun to Bedford” When: Sunday, August 11, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. Where: St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville For further information, contact: […]
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 by local historian Kevin D. […]
Lovettsville Memorial Day Ceremony Keynote Address: “The Origins of Decoration Day” By Edward Spannaus Lovettsville Historical Society May 27, 2013 Twice a year, we gather here to honor our military veterans – On Memorial Day […]
“The Eyes of the Nation Were Upon Us” Background to Lovettsville’s second Civil War Trails Marker, “Union Gateway to Virginia” [Following is an expanded version of the remarks delivered by Edward Spannaus of the Lovettsville Historical […]
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 War” poses for a portrait […]
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 has listed the historic core […]
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 County in 1862” at 2 […]
The Town of Lovettsville and the Veterans Association of the Lovettsville Historical Society invite the public to honor our Veterans at the Lovettsville Town Center Square on Friday, 11 November 2011, at 11 a.m. […]
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 Historical Society’s lecture series, on […]
Lovettsville, A German Settlement http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/lovettsville.htm Lovettsville, Virginia, is located in northern Loudoun County, just about two miles south of the Potomac River, which is the state line between Virginia and Maryland. It is about 15 […]
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 among the first buildings to […]
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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