{"id":1300,"date":"2017-02-17T02:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2017-02-17T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:47:34","slug":"lhs-free-lecture-series-the-ground-beneath-your-feet-the-fairfax-land-grants-in-loudoun-county-292017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/lhs-free-lecture-series-the-ground-beneath-your-feet-the-fairfax-land-grants-in-loudoun-county-292017\/","title":{"rendered":"LHS Free Lecture Series: The Ground Beneath Your Feet, The Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County (2\/19\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"northern_neck_proprietary_map-1\"<\/a>Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series:<\/em>
\nThe Ground Beneath Your Feet: \u00a0The Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County, \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nPresented by Wynne Saffer,
\nSunday, February 19, at 2:00 pm.<\/div>\n
\n

On Sunday, February 19, 2017, the Lovettsville Historical Society will continue its 2017 Lecture Series with a presentation by Loudoun County historian Wynne Saffer on the Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County.<\/p>\n

If you live or work in Loudoun County, the ground under your feet \u2013 in fact, all the land between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers — once belonged to the 5th and 6th Lords Fairfax, stemming from a grant by King Charles II of England. \u00a0Fairfax land agents sold patents of large tracts of land to land speculators, who in turn sold or leased smaller tracts of land to settlers and plantation owners. If you trace title to any tract of land in Loudoun, or Lovettsville, back far enough, you will end up with a Fairfax.<\/p>\n

German squatters from Pennsylvania occupied some of the lands in this area starting in the 1730s \u2013 much of which remained in Fairfax hands. Over time, the Germans and other settlers had their “lease for lives,” and generally did not or could not buy property until after the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

Wynne Saffer, a life-long resident of Loudoun, and a winner of the Balch Library History Award, has documented and mapped all of the Fairfax land grants in Loudoun County. He will describe how we went from all the lands in the hands of one owner, to the many tens of thousands of separate properties today. \u00a0He will describe the difference between land grants and patents, and how this grew into our modern system of land ownership today.<\/p>\n

The program will be held at St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, Va., at 2:00 p.m. \u00a0 Admission is free, but donations are welcome to suppport the Lovettsville Historical Society and the Lecture Series. \u00a0For more information, visit www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Also booked for 2017:<\/p>\n

March 12, 2017 — “C.\u00a0F. Wenner and C&O Canal Navigation at the\u00a0Opening of the Civil War,”<\/strong>\u00a0by Tim Snyder, author of\u00a0Uncertain and Precarious:\u00a0C&O Canal Navigation at the\u00a0Beginning of the Civil War<\/em>.<\/p>\n

April 16, 2017 \u2013 \u201cMyths about Lee’s Surrender.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0What really happened at Appomattox–separating myth from fact.\u00a0By Patrick Schroeder, Historian of Appomattox Court House National Historical Park.<\/p>\n

April\u00a0<\/strong>– TBD — the next\u00a0“Living Legends of Lovettsville”<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 21, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cMapping the Short Hill,\u201d\u00a0<\/b>by Loudoun County historian and map-maker Eugene Scheel.<\/p>\n

June 11 — Colonial Life in Maryland and Virginia,<\/strong>\u00a0by Prof. Paul McDermott.<\/p>\n

Other lectures\u00a0<\/strong>being planned include:
\nThe Story of Storer College in Harpers Ferry\u00a0;
\nLoudoun’s 19th century railroads;
\nThe History of Lovettsville’s Methodist Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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