{"id":6899,"date":"2025-09-02T20:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:12:32","slug":"lhs-lecture-series-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/lhs-lecture-series-september\/","title":{"rendered":"LHS Lecture Series (September)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">The Stories Behind Lovettsville&#8217;s Civil War Trails Walking Tour<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Presented by: Richard Gillespie, Public Historian<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 2:00pm<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">St. James United Church of Christ<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lovettsville Historical Society will be introducing the three new Civil War Trails signs in Lovettsville, and the stories behind them, at its Second Sunday lecture on September 14th, at 2:00 p.m. at St. James church in Lovettsville.&nbsp; Following the lecture, a dedication ceremony will be held at the Town Office parking lot with Town and Lovettsville Historical Society officials participating.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"151\" height=\"149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CWT-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6898\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The three signs \u2013 two updated, and one completely new \u2013 have been incorporated into the newly-established \u201cCivil War Trails Walking Tour\u201d through Lovettsville\u2019s Historic District.&nbsp; (The Historic District, recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, was the subject of our August lecture, which can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sAV88pfkyqw\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three new Civil War Trails signs are laid out chronologically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign No. 1, <em>\u201cUnion Loyalists on the Border,\u201d<\/em> is set on the Town Square (the \u201cSquirkle\u201d) and portrays 1861-62 in Lovettsville.\u00a0 The German Settlement (the area surrounding the town of Lovettsville) leaned Unionist, and in a Confederate state, this was certainly problematic for the residents.\u00a0 The relocated, and now more-accessible sign has a good eastward-facing view of the town and sits close to the Veterans\u2019 Memorial.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sign No. 2, <em>\u201cGateway to Virginia,\u201d<\/em> sits at the town\u2019s original main intersection at East Broad Way and South Loudoun Street, and describes 1862-63 when the enormous Union Army of the Potomac marched through town after the Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg.\u00a0 The viewscape better focusses on the view of that time a century-and-a-half ago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sign No. 3, <em>\u201cWinter Camps,\u201d<\/em> sits in the northeast corner of the Town Office parking lot, and gives us a glimpse of the winter of 1865 when Lovettsville was occupied by a brigade of Union cavalry for two months.\u00a0 Just behind the Town Office is a remnant of the old Presbyterian Church\u2014its graveyard\u2014and the sign tells how that church was turned into an army hospital during the winter encampment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The first part of the September 14 program, starting at 2:00, will consist of Richard Gillespie relating some of the stories behind the Civil War signs, and will take place at St. James church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of the program, starting around 3:00, will be the dedication ceremony, which will take place behind the church at the Town Office parking lot on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been a cooperative effort between the Lovettsville Historical Society, the Town of Lovettsville, and Civil War Trails. Our previous article, and the brochure describing the Walking Tour is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/lovettsville-civil-war-walking-trails\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video recording of the September 14 presentation will be posted on the Lovettsville Historical Society website following the events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Admission is free, but donations are welcome to defray expenses of the program and to support the activities of the Lovettsville Historical Society.<br><br>&nbsp; For more information, call 540-822-9194.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stories Behind Lovettsville&#8217;s Civil War Trails Walking Tour Presented by: Richard Gillespie, Public Historian Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 2:00pm St. James United Church of Christ 10 East Broad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,7,3,137,35],"tags":[32,270,25,277,276],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-war","category-event","category-lecture","category-loudoun-history","category-lovettsville-history","tag-civil-war","tag-civil-war-trails","tag-lovettsville-history","tag-richard-gillespie","tag-walking-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}