Tag: Black History
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Grace Anderson Smith: A Woman Who Spread Love and Kindness Throughout Her Life
By: Claudette Lewis Bard When I began studying my family history, I started looking at census records in order to get facts and statistical data. Some of the information gathered…
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Ray Anderson’s German Great-Grandson Responds to Newsletter Article
By Claudette Lewis Bard The power of the Internet never ceases to amaze me. Often in the news, we hear about someone’s research leading them to a discovery that would…
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Saving Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
By Lori Kimball A physical testament to the strength and resilience of Loudoun’s African American community can be found in the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Cemetery, located at the base of…
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The Schoolhouse on South Loudoun Street
The house at the point where South Loudoun and Locust Streets intersect, has recently undergone a renovation, as many have noticed. This building has a storied history. It was cited…
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Friends of Mount Sinai Cemetery Address Board of Supervisors
Representatives of the Family & Friends of Mount Sinai Cemetery and the Lovettsville Historical Society addressed the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on April 19, urging the Board to take…
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Next in…
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series: Lovettsville’s Hidden History:Mount Sinai Church & Cemetery Sunday, April 3, at 2:00 p.m. In-person at Lovettsville Town Council Chamber (behind the Museum)…
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Honoring Those Interred at Mount Sinai Cemetery
by Claudette Lewis Bard In our October newsletter, we featured an article entitled “Hidden History: The Mount Sinai Church and Cemetery at ‘Little Britain.’” The article chronicled the once-thriving…
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Part II of “The Right to Vote: An Ancestral Story
By Claudette Lewis Bard Click here for Part I Last month, we briefly chronicled the lives of 37 African-American men whose names were included in the “List of Colored…
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- Lovettsville, “The German Settlement”
- History of the Potomac River Crossing at Berlin/Brunswick
- Street Names of Lovettsville and Their Meanings
- Buildings of Lovettsville
- Historic Churches of Lovettsville
- African-American Methodist Episcopal Church, Lovettsville, Virginia
- New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Providence Primitive Baptist Church (former site of Old Presbyterian Church), Lovettsville, Virginia
- Reformed Church (now St. James United Church of Christ), Lovettsville, Virginia
- Rehobeth Church, Lovettsville, Virginia
- St. James Reformed Church — from WPA Historical Inventory Project, 1938
- Brown Funeral Home, Lovettsville, Virginia
- F&M Bank, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Freedom Masonic Lodge No. 118, AF & AM, Lovettsville, Virginia
- George’s Mill, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Hammond’s Blacksmith Shop, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Elementary School, Lovettsville, Virginia.
- Lovettsville Game Protective Association, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville High School (1910), Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Library, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Post Office (1937-1961), Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Town Hall, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Lovettsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue
- McClain’s Grocery, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Reamer’s Hotel, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Stone Pump House, Lovettsville, Virginia
- Historic Churches of Lovettsville
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