{"id":1691,"date":"2017-12-30T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T08:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?page_id=1691"},"modified":"2018-01-06T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T05:56:52","slug":"georges-mill-11867-georges-mill-road-lovettsville-virginia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/local-history\/houses-of-lovettsville\/georges-mill-11867-georges-mill-road-lovettsville-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"George&#8217;s Mill, Lovettsville, Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>George&#8217;s Mill, 11867 Georges Mill Road,\u00a0Lovettsville, Virginia<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/abbeybighouse.jpg\" alt=\"abbeybighouse\" width=\"389\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/abbeybighouse.jpg 389w, https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/abbeybighouse-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Georges Mill Farm can be dated to records going back to 1774. \u00a0 At that time, the land was owned by John George, who had come to Loudoun County around 1732 from Germany via Pennsylvania. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-163 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/georgesmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/barn-300x199.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/georgesmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/barn-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/georgesmill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/barn.jpg 361w\" alt=\"barn\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">John\u2019s grandson, Samuel W. George, built the stone house that now serves as Georges Mill Farm Bed and Breakfast and where his descendents still live.\u00a0 He chose the site where his grandfather had his garden. He beganconstruction around 1859.\u00a0 When the Civil War broke out, work on the house came to a standstill.\u00a0 Original work on the house was finished in 1869.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">During the Civil War, Union troops of the Sixth New York Calvary camped on an area of Georges Mill Farm.\u00a0 From here, they had access to the road that went to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/hafe\">Harper\u2019s Ferry<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently during this interval, the officers were often\u00a0guests of the family and developed friendships with the young ladies who lived here.\u00a0 The family has letters from these officers as mementos of our history.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/georgesmill.com\/history-of-georges-mill-farm\/\">georgesmill.com\/history-of-georges-mill-farm\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George&#8217;s Mill, 11867 Georges Mill Road,\u00a0Lovettsville, Virginia Georges Mill Farm can be dated to records going back to 1774. \u00a0 At that time, the land was owned by John George,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1691","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1691\/revisions\/1918"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}