-
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…
-
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…
-
Book Signing Event: “The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers, The Roster of Virginia’s Only Union Cavalry Unit” (2/25/2017)
A book-signing event at the Lovettsville Museum on Sat. Feb. 25, 2017 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, will feature the authors of the new book “The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers: The…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville Historical Society Launches Museum Expansion Fund With Two Major Donations (2017)
You may have seen the story in the Brunswick Citizen issue of February 2, 2017. Entitled “Making History,” the story reported about the fundraising drive launched by the Lovettsville Historical Society to ensure…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville Museum Kicks Off Expansion Fund (2016)
The Board of Directors of the Lovettsville Historical Society is pleased to announce the creation of a “Museum Expansion Fund.” Donations to this fund will be used exclusively either for improving…
-
“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…
-
Legends of Lovettsville Lecture Series Launches (2016)
http://loudounnow.com/2016/12/02/legends-of-lovettsville-series-launches-on-sunday/
-
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,…
-
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…
-
“West End, Lovettsville” 1915 Postcard Found By Dick Hickman (2016)
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…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville History-Mystery #1 (2016)
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…
-
Record-Breaking Lovettsville Museum Attendance During Oktoberfest (2016)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville Historical Society Elects New Leadership (2016)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
New Acquisitions at the Lovettsville Historical Society Museum (2016)
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…
-
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…
-
New Lovettsville Museum Acquisitions: Items related to the 1940 Lovettsville Plane Crash (2016)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
“Gillespie Takes Listeners Back to 1865-1866,” Reprinted from The Brunswick Citizen (2016)
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
Recollections of Allan W. Brown Regarding the 1940 Lovettsville Air Disaster (2015)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Girl Scout Troop 1434 Earns “Playing the Past” Badge at the Lovettsville Museum (2014)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
“Lovettsville: A Working Town, Or Bedroom Community?” by Edward Spannaus (2014)
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
LHS Free Lecture Series: “From Loudoun to Bedford County, Pennsylvania” (2013)
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,…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville Memorial Day Ceremony Keynote Address: “The Origins of Decoration Day” by Edward Spannaus (2013)
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…
-
Lovettsville Civil War Trail Marker “Union Gateway to Virginia” Dedication Ceremony (2013)
“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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Lovettsville Civil War Marker Dedication Ceremony – The Loudoun Rangers (2009)
[slideshow_deploy id=’311′] 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,…
-
Death of Senator from Minnesota Still Shrouded in Mystery (2009)
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.…
-
“The Lovettsville Butcher Shop Complex As I Knew It,” by Glenn L. Grove (1991)
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…
-
VIDEO: Lovettsville Episodes of “Loudoun Scrapbook” (circa 1990)
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…
-
The Meaning Behind the Lovettsville Community Quilt (1990)
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…
-
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…
-
The Origins of Lovettsville’s Oktoberfest, by Jean S. Mohler (1976)
“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…
-
The Lovettsville Midtown Fire of 1923, by Yetive Weatherly (1976)
[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…
-
“Lovettsville Had Zoning Laws, Sunday Laws in 1842” by Laura A. Potterfield (1976)
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,…
-
Lovettsville Alumni Association Celebrates 50th Anniversary (1967)
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…
-
Miss Elaine Painter Weds Clifton Thomas Walker In Beautiful Setting At St. James United Church of Christ (1959)
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…
-
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…
-
Tragedy On the Airways – The Washington DC Sunday Star (1940)
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…
-
Three Buildings Destroyed In Big Lovettsville Fire (9-10-1923)
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…
-
VIDEO: Down the Old Potomac On the C&O Canal; A Thomas Edison Film (1917)
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,…
-
“The Pennsylvania Germans in Loudoun County, Virginia” (1908)
“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…
-
Book: “The German Settlement” by Briscoe Goodhart (1900)
“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…
-
![Thumbnail for the post titled: 1863 Map of Fauquier & Loudon [sic] Counties, Virginia (1863)](http://www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1863-4x6-Map-of-Fauquier-and-Loudon-Va-Postcard-Front-1.jpg)
1863 Map of Fauquier & Loudon [sic] Counties, Virginia (1863)
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.…
