{"id":2486,"date":"1976-07-04T00:00:33","date_gmt":"1976-07-04T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2018-06-23T01:37:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T01:37:20","slug":"lovettsville-had-zoning-laws-sunday-laws-in-1842-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/lovettsville-had-zoning-laws-sunday-laws-in-1842-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lovettsville Had Zoning Laws, Sunday Laws in 1842&#8221; by Laura A. Potterfield (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, bonnets and derbies than any other chapter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">At the last meeting of the Lovettsville Home Demonstration Club, Miss Laura Potterfield gave the history of Lovettsville by special request. \u00a0So much interest was exhibited in it, that a brief account follows:<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u2014<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Lovettsville Had Zoning Laws, Sunday Laws in 1842<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>by Laura A. Potterfield<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>1976<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Lovettsville was a German settlement. \u00a0It was first called <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=DtMwAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=lovettsville%20%22thrasher's%20store%22&amp;pg=PA129#v=onepage&amp;q=lovettsville%20%22thrasher's%20store%22&amp;f=false\"><b class=\"\">Thrashers Store<\/b><\/a>. \u00a0In 1824 it was <b class=\"\">New Town<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=DtMwAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=lovettsville%20%22thrasher's%20store%22&amp;pg=PA129&amp;output=embed\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">In 1840<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KvBQAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1836%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA364#v=onepage&amp;q=1836%20lovettsville&amp;f=false\"><b class=\"\">In 1836 the name was changed to Lovettsville<\/b><\/a> after David Lovett. \u00a0A deed dated November 5, 1833 shows that he owned land here.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KvBQAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1836%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA364&amp;output=embed\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">The <b class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nfFJAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1842%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA121#v=onepage&amp;q=1842%20lovettsville&amp;f=false\">town was incorporated January 14, 1842<\/a>.<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nfFJAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1842%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA121&amp;output=embed\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Then by an act of legislature, the<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bsU_AQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1876%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA221#v=onepage&amp;q=1876%20lovettsville&amp;f=false\"><b class=\"\"> charter was amended March 27, 1876<\/b><\/a>. \u00a0We have the necessary documents so drawn up. \u00a0The town had a mayor and council of six men, a clerk and town constable. \u00a0It had zoning laws and Sunday laws, tax laws governing the speed of horses. \u00a0The population, or persons taxable within the town was 69. \u00a0The tax was five cents on $100. \u00a0Lovettsville had an ordinance that required the home owners to keep their premises clean or pay $5 to the council.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bsU_AQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=1876%20lovettsville&amp;pg=PA221&amp;output=embed\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The name of the street running past the <b class=\"\">Post Office<\/b> is \u201cBroad Way.\u201d \u00a0Parallel to this is \u201cPennsylvania Avenue.\u201d \u201cChurch Street\u201d cuts through at <b class=\"\">Richard Hickman<\/b>\u2019s [Lots 1 and 2]. \u00a0\u201cLight Street\u201d at the\u00a0<b class=\"\">Reformed Church<\/b> [Lot 5], \u201cPike Street&#8221; starts at <b class=\"\">McClain\u2019s store <\/b>[Lot 11], and \u201cLocust Street&#8221; cuts through at <b class=\"\">Brown\u2019s funeral parlor<\/b> [Lot 16].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1976\/07\/1876-Town-of-Lovettsville-Plat-20x30-POSTER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-2494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1976\/07\/1876-Town-of-Lovettsville-Plat-20x30-POSTER-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1876 Town of Lovettsville Plat 20x30 POSTER\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1976\/07\/1876-Town-of-Lovettsville-Plat-20x30-POSTER-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1976\/07\/1876-Town-of-Lovettsville-Plat-20x30-POSTER-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1976\/07\/1876-Town-of-Lovettsville-Plat-20x30-POSTER-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Members of the Reformed Church were meeting here in 1733. \u00a0Some records have the date 1720. \u00a0Michael Slaughter preached here in 1748. \u00a0He rode in from Middletown, Maryland on horseback. \u00a0The <b class=\"\">first Reformed Church building<\/b> was in the midst of the graveyard.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Then in 1901 a <b class=\"\">new Reformed church\u00a0building<\/b> was erected in town.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">The <b class=\"\">Presbyterian Church<\/b> built in 1833 [also] stood in an old graveyard. \u00a0It was used as a Union Hospital in the Civil War. \u00a0When my father, Thomas L. Potterfield [owner of\u00a0the house on Lot 26, now HousePaws Veterinary, and the meat store on Lot 25, now the site of the Lovettsville Town Hall and Lovettsville Museum], was digging a post hole, he found a skeleton that had been buried face downward.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Near the <b class=\"\">4-H picnic grounds<\/b>, there was a <b class=\"\">church<\/b> first used by the Methodist. \u00a0Later it was owned by the Lutheran, then it went back to the Methodists. \u00a0In 1879, the Rev. P.H. Miller of Lutheran and the Rev. St. John Rinker of Reformed, petitioned to the council to grant protection to the churches and public worship.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Lovettsville boasted of a <b class=\"\">boarding school<\/b>, run by Miss Betty Clapham, where George Groves now lives. \u00a0There was a harness shop, <b class=\"\">hotel<\/b> [Lot 10], shoemaker\u2019s shop, livery stable, drug store, tailor shop, <b class=\"\">furniture shop<\/b> [Goodhart&#8217;s, Lot 16], <b class=\"\">meat store <\/b>[Lot 25], <b class=\"\">theater <\/b>[at\u00a0Lot 11, with entrance between Lots 11 and 12], millinery store, <b class=\"\">blacksmith shop <\/b>[Hammond&#8217;s lot], tin shop,<b class=\"\"> jail or lockup<\/b> [see School House Lot], and a bank.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Lovettsville also had two large general stores: one where Brice Wenner now lives operated by the <b class=\"\">Chinn Brothers<\/b>; the other one about where Wendal Brown\u2019s residence is and operated by <b class=\"\">George F. Eamich<\/b> [Lot 28]. \u00a0Customers came from out of the county and spent practically the entire day shopping. \u00a0At one time, also <b class=\"\">Peter A. Frye had a store<\/b>\u00a0[Lot 11].<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">This brings Lovettsville up to the first quarter of 1900.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\u2014\u2014<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><em>Undated newspaper clipping from 1976; name of publication not indicated.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}