Presented by Chris Haugh, Frederick County Historian, Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Chris Haugh, Frederick County historian and the Historic Preservation Manager of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland, will explore the legend of […]
VIDEO: “On This Ground,” A Documentary History of Lovettsville, The German Settlement (2006). Narrated by Rich Gillespie and featuring interviews with Lovettsvillians Renace Painter, former Mayor Elaine Walker, Dick Hickman, Fran Wire, and Tom Bullock, […]
The Lovettsville Museum has quite a few farm and household implements and tools from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which have been grouped together as a look-and-touch interactive display and guessing game of “pre-digital era” […]
by Edward Spannaus Lovettsville Historical Society Board Member and Researcher The greyish, barn-like building on South Locust Street, Lovettsville, Virginia, recently taken down, is believed by most local historians to have once been the Nicewarner […]
Patrick Murphy, author of the award-winning book “The French & Indian War in Shenandoah County: Life on the Inner Frontier 1752-1766,” is the next featured lecturer in the Lovettsville Historical Society Series, on March 11, 2018. Mr. […]
The Lovettsville Museum has quite a few farm and household implements from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which have been grouped together as a look-and-touch interactive display and guessing game of “pre-digital era” technology, with […]
The Lovettsville Historical Society will open its 2018 lecture series on February 11, with a presentation by Walter Washington of Charles Town which will chronicle the migration of the Washington family from the Virginia Tidewater to […]
by Rich Gillespie Sometimes organizations from opposite ends of the county put out a helping hand to each other. Such was the case on Saturday, January 20, 2018, when members of the Lovettsville Historical Society […]
by Mike Zapf, Researcher and Member of the Board of Directors, Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum I recently discovered an old book, among many that Tom Bullock, past president of the Lovettsville Historical Society, […]
The Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum has a growing archive of documents, maps, and photos pertaining to the history of Lovettsville and the surrounding German Settlement. LHS Vice President and researcher, Ed Spannaus, has been […]
The Lovettsville Museum has quite a few farm and household implements from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which have been grouped together as a look-and-touch interactive display and guessing game of “pre-digital era” technology, with […]
Upcoming Lectures: All Lovettsville Historical Society lectures are held at 2:00 on Sunday afternoons, at St. James United Church of Christ in Lovettsville, VA. They are free and open to the public, although donations are […]
Have you renewed your Lovettsville Historical Society membership for 2018? Join or renew today, and your 2018 membership will be valid from January 1 to December 31. Please support the activities and programs of the LHS […]
Click to read the January 2018 Newsletter of the Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, including: Shane and Fay Branchcomb Donate to Museum Expansion Fund. Museum Wins Award in “Light Up Lovettsville” Contest. History Mystery #2. The Meaning Behind […]
The Lovettsville Museum has quite a few farm and household implements from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which have been grouped together as a look-and-touch interactive display and guessing game of “pre-digital era” technology, with […]
Visit the Lovettsville Historical Society website’s 1940 Lovettsville Airline Disaster Archive to watch a documentary film, read the text from several 1940 newspapers, look at newspaper wire photos, and read the final crash investigation report from the […]
Lovettsville residents Shane and Fay Branchcomb (shown here with Fred George on the left), made a substantial donation to the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Museum Expansion Fund on December 23. We thank them very much for their generous support. The […]
On December 20, 2017, at the “Light Up Lovettsville” awards ceremony at Lovettsville Town Hall, Mayor Bobby Zoldos and Councilwoman Kimberly Allar handed out the awards for Lovettsville homes and businesses with the best holiday exterior […]
Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum is now on Twitter! Please follow @LovMuseum on Twitter, and help us build our Followers. New feature articles on Lovettsville History will be tweeted monthly, if not weekly! https://twitter.com/LovMuseum Lovettsville […]
Click below to read the December 2017 Newsletter of the Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, including: Brides of Lovettsville: Elaine Painter Weds Clifton Walker, 1959; Lovettsville Museum Featured in “Holidays In Loudoun 2017”; From the Archives: Kate Souder […]
The Lovettsville Historical Society will hold its 2017 Annual Membership Meeting at 2:00 on Sunday, December 3, at the Lovettsville Museum, 4 East Pennsylvania Avenue in Lovettsville. The meeting is open to all members and […]
Click below to open the November 2017 Newsletter of the Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, including: Video of Eugene Scheel Lecture On YouTube; Visit our Newly-Renovated Museum. https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?u=505152bd0e6e82e1cbc019d3c&id=ad4f485ef1
[Technical Note: the clicking sound during the first seven minutes of the video has been identified as a ballpoint pen]. On November 5, 1781 – just weeks after the American victory at Yorktown – […]
VIDEO: “Mapping the Short Hill With Eugene Scheel” (2017) is the recording of a lecture hosted by the Lovettsville Historical Society & Museum, October 15, 2017. Watch and hear the fascinating background story, in his own […]
Loudoun County’s pre-eminent map-maker and historian, Eugene Scheel, will discuss the making of his latest map on Sunday, October 15, 2017, as part of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s monthly Lecture Series. Mr. Scheel’s new map […]
A new website makes it easier for the public to obtain information the historic Lovettsville Union Cemetery, the final resting-place for more than 3,700 people from Lovettsville and the surrounding area. The website features a […]
“The Story of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church,” Lecture at St. James United Church of Christ, Lovettsville, VA, Sunday, September 17, 2017, 2:00 pm. Mount Olivet United Methodist Church is one of Lovettsville’s oldest churches. Although […]
“Hope on the Hill: Harpers Ferry’s Storer College,” Presented by Guinevere Roper, Park Ranger, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Sunday, August 13, 2:00 pm, St. James United Church of Christ, Lovettsville, VA. After the […]
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Lecture Series: The Edwin Washington Project, Documenting Pre-Integration Schools of Loudoun County, Presented by Larry Roeder, Principal Investigator, Sunday, July 9, 2017, 2:00 p.m., St. James United Church […]
COLONIAL LIFE IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2017 Free Lecture Series, Presented by Prof. Paul D. McDermott, Sunday, June 11, 2017, at 2:00 pm On Sunday, June 11, the Lovettsville […]
As an aid to anyone doing genealogical research on people who lived in the Lovettsville area, the full burial directory for Lovettsville Union Cemetery is now available online at http://lovettsvilleunioncemetery.org/index.htm
POSTPONED: “Mapping the Short Hill,” the lecture by historian and mapmaker Eugene Scheel, originally planned for May 21, is being postponed, because the memorial service for Clifton T. Walker — a long-time friend and supporter […]
Presented by Patrick Schroeder, Historian, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Sunday, April 23, at 2:00 pm, St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville, VA. The Lovettsville Historical Society will continue its 2017 […]
C. F. Wenner and C&O Canal Navigation at the Opening of the Civil War, Presented by Tim Snyder, Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 2:00 pm, St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, […]
Lovettsville History-Mystery #3: This antique photograph was found in a house in northern Loudoun County, Virginia. It appears to be a Union officer from the Civil War period. Can you identify the man in this […]
A book-signing event at the Lovettsville Museum on Sat. Feb. 25, 2017 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm, will feature the authors of the new book “The Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers: The Roster of Virginia’s Only Union […]
Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture Series: The Ground Beneath Your Feet: The Fairfax Land Grants in Loudoun County, Presented by Wynne Saffer, Sunday, February 19, at 2:00 pm. On Sunday, February 19, […]
You may have seen the story in the Brunswick Citizen issue of February 2, 2017. Entitled “Making History,” the story reported about the fundraising drive launched by the Lovettsville Historical Society to ensure the Lovettsville Museum’s ability to […]
January 29, 2017 – “The First Front: The Baltimore & Ohio Railway During the Civil War,” by Daniel Carroll Toomey. On Sunday, January 29, the Lovettsville Historical Society will kick off its 2017 Lecture Series with a presentation […]
The Board of Directors of the Lovettsville Historical Society is pleased to announce the creation of a “Museum Expansion Fund.” Donations to this fund will be used exclusively either for improving our present facility, or acquiring […]
WATCH THE JIMMY SPRING VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ONLINE at https://vimeo.com/195151504 . This documentary is the story of a Living Legend of Lovettsville, farmer Jimmy Spring, 95 years young. A “legend” is a narrative, a story, like the […]
Legends of Lovettsville Series Launches on Sunday
Lovettsville High School Class of 1942 (?) Group Photo Seeking community assistance to identify these students. Click on photo to download larger photo JPEG. First row (left to right): Jimmy George, Edward Brooks, Vivian Viola McGaha (Lynn), […]
WATCH THE VIDEO “The Plane Crash by John P. Flannery” at https://vimeo.com/191335903 . See our archive of documents and photographs at 1940 Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Trip 19 Disaster Archive PRESS RELEASE: What: Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture: “THE GREAT […]
This “West End, Lovettsville” postcard, with a 1915 postmark, was found in a Harrisonburg, Va. antique shop by Dick Hickman, who grew up in the house on the right, and whose mother, Sue Wire Hickman […]
On Sunday, October 9, 2016, Doug Perks, Chief Historian of the Jefferson County Museum in Charles Town, will discuss the formation of the State of West Virginia during the Civil War, and Jefferson County’s role […]
LOVETTSVILLE HISTORY-MYSTERY #1: Can you help the Lovettsville Museum by telling us anything you might know about the “Willow Bend Inn,” J.F. McCormick, proprietor? According to the cover on this matchbook purchased on eBay, the Willow Bend […]
This year was the most successful Oktoberfest yet, both for the Town of Lovettsville and for the Lovettsville Museum. Our estimate is that we had around 600 people coming into the Museum. We were open […]
On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, historian and professor Edward Lengel will present a little-known side of George Washington: his skills as a businessman and manager, and how he used these talents to build the new […]
George Washington’s entrepreneurial skills will be the focus of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s next lecture. University of Virginia History Professor Edward G. Lengel will present “First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His—and the Nation’s — […]
Presented by Tim Rowland, Sunday, August 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm, St. James UCC Church, Lovettsville, Virginia. On Sunday, Aug. 14, New York Times bestselling author Tim Rowland will discuss “Prelude to the Revolution: The […]
At our August, 2016 lecture on the French-Indian War, the question was raised as to who from the German Settlement (as the area surrounding present-day Lovettsville was once known) participated in the French-Indian War. Loudoun […]
At our Annual Meeting on July 31, 2016 the members of the Lovettsville Historical Society elected the new Board of Directors for 2016-17. Following the Annual Meeting, the new Board of Directors convened, and elected […]
Presented by Jody Brumeage, Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 2:00 pm. Petersville, Maryland — which lies just north of Brunswick — is one of the oldest and yet most overlooked communities in the Middletown Valley. […]
The birth of Freemasonry in Lovettsville took place 150 years ago – just months after the end of the Civil War – when the Grand Lodge, Ancient, Free, & Accepted Masons, of Virginia, at the […]
In addition to a number of original news photographs taken at the scene of the Aug. 31, 1940 airliner crash near Lovettsville, the Lovettsville Museum successfully bid on the copy of the New York Times which reported […]
Lecture, Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm. The 283-year history of Lovettsville’s old German Reformed Church, now St. James United Church of Christ, will be the topic of the next presentation in the Lovettsville […]
The Lovettsville Museum has recently acquired a number of original news photographs taken at the scene of the Aug. 31, 1940 airliner crash near Lovettsville. And as a result of the articles written by John […]
April 6, 2016, LoudounNow. The next presentation in the Lovettsville Historical Society lecture series has a provocative title: “George Washington DID NOT Build the C&0 Canal: The Story of Potomac River Navigation and the Rise […]
Historian John Frye will discuss the fascinating story of the C&O Canal and the history of transportation along the Potomac River. This is the third lecture in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s 2016 Lecture Series, titled, […]
Presented by Don Peterson Sunday, March 13, 2016 On Sunday, March 13, 2016, local naturalist and writer Don Peterson will discuss the geology of the Brunswick-Lovettsville area, as the second presentation in the Lovettsville Historical […]
The Sixth in a Series of Local Civil War Glimpses Presented by Richard Gillespie Sunday, February 14, 2016 Richard T. Gillespie, the Executive Director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, will once again kick off […]
By Margaret Morton, LoudounNow, February 4, 2016. As the Lovettsville Historical Society opens its 2016 lecture series next Sunday, Feb. 14, it also is marking four decades of telling the stories of the community’s people and […]
Dear Mr. Flannery, I am a Brunswick Citizen reader and a former Lovettsvillian married to a Braunsweigerin. We are now retired and in our 80s and for better or worse living in Salem, Virginia, close […]
by Liz Tenney Jarvis, Purcellville Gazette November 13, 2015 On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Veterans are remembered and saluted for their service to their country. What began in […]
LOVETTSVILLE LIVING: Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series final presentation Blog entry by John McNeilly | Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 On Sunday, Nov. 8, the Lovettsville Historical Society will hold its final presentation of their 2015 […]
By John McNeilly, Loudoun Times Mirror, September 18, 2015. LOVETTSVILLE LIVING: Lovettsville Historical Society announces new lecture. The Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture series will present “Luther Potterfield and the Lovettsville Potterfields: A Divided Family,” at […]
by Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, March 2, 2015. The Lovettsville Historical Society’s next lecture on local history refers to a historic figure with a less than savory reputation. The March 8, 2015 presentation-“”John Mobberly: Loudoun County Civil […]
“Great God! Take Care of Us Now!” with Rich Gillespie, The Fifth in a Series on the Civil War in the Mosby Heritage Area. SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 2015 at 3 o’clock P.M.; Goose Creek Friends Meeting, […]
On Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, the Lovettsville Historical Society will kick off its 2015 Lecture Series with the fifth installment in a series of Sesquicentennial glimpses of the local experience before and during the Civil War, featuring […]
Lovettsville Girl Scout Troop 1434 earned their “Playing the Past” badge by visiting the Lovettsville Historical Society on Sunday, November 23, 2014. The group of 5th graders learned about daily life in the era before electricity, […]
Press Advisory: Where: Lovettsville Museum, 4 East Broad Way. When: 2:00 pm, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. An autograph book from the Civil War era, identified as belonging to Kate Souder of Loudoun County, has been […]
by Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, November 7, 2014. An autograph book from the Civil War era will come home to Lovettsville Saturday, November 7, 2014, where it will be welcomed with gratitude at the Lovettsville […]
Remarks delivered by Edward Spannaus at the Lovettsville Alumni Association Dinner, June 14, 2014, based on a memorandum prepared by Spannaus when he served on the Lovettsville Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee in 2010-11. I always […]
by Rachel Leon, Purcellville Gazette June 5, 2014 Lovettsville Elementary 5th grade teacher Edward Davis retires this month after 39 years of teaching, 21 of which were spent in Lovettsville.His last day is June 17, […]
By John McNeilly, Loudoun Times Mirror, April 7, 2014. The Phase I rendering of the proposed new community center in Lovettsville. Loudoun County and officials with the Town of Lovettsville are proposing to tear down the […]
The project to save the historical farmstead of Revolutionary War veteran John Stoutsenberger will be the subject of the next event in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series. It will be held on Sunday, September […]
Press Release: What: Lovettsville Historical Society Lecture: “From Loudoun to Bedford” When: Sunday, August 11, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. Where: St. James United Church of Christ, 10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville For further information, contact: […]
Purcellville Gazette June 9, 2013 The unknown story of the approximately 250 African-American soldiers from Loudoun County who served in the Union Army during the Civil War has been discovered by local historian Kevin D. […]
Lovettsville Memorial Day Ceremony Keynote Address: “The Origins of Decoration Day” By Edward Spannaus Lovettsville Historical Society May 27, 2013 Twice a year, we gather here to honor our military veterans – On Memorial Day […]
“The Eyes of the Nation Were Upon Us” Background to Lovettsville’s second Civil War Trails Marker, “Union Gateway to Virginia” [Following is an expanded version of the remarks delivered by Edward Spannaus of the Lovettsville Historical […]
By Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post, March 2, 2013. Kevin Dulany Grigsby, author of “From Loudoun to Glory: The Role of African Americans from Loudoun County in the Civil War” poses for a portrait […]
By Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, August 24, 2012. Lovettsville has become the latest western Loudoun municipality to win state and national designation for its historic assets. The National Park Service has listed the historic core […]
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, by Stephen Johnson, Special to the Loudoun Times-Mirror. Rich Gillespie, director of education for the Mosby Heritage Area Association, will speak on “The Potomac Frontier: Loudoun County in 1862” at 2 […]
The Town of Lovettsville and the Veterans Association of the Lovettsville Historical Society invite the public to honor our Veterans at the Lovettsville Town Center Square on Friday, 11 November 2011, at 11 a.m. […]
Blue Ridge Leader September 28, 2011 Lifelong Lovettsville resident Glenn Grove will discuss life in Old Lovettsville, especially the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, as the next event in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s lecture series, on […]
Lovettsville, A German Settlement http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/lovettsville.htm Lovettsville, Virginia, is located in northern Loudoun County, just about two miles south of the Potomac River, which is the state line between Virginia and Maryland. It is about 15 […]
By Margaret Morton, Leesburg Today, July 29, 2010. Imposing brick, stone or wood mills once were a common sight around Loudoun, a sign of its thriving agricultural economy. They were usually among the first buildings to […]
Prepared Remarks of Edward Spannaus* At the outset of the Civil War, Lovettsville and the German Settlement (as the surrounding area was known), was in a strategic location, in a prosperous valley adjoining the border […]
By Albert Eisele | 09/03/09 LOVETTSVILLE, VA. — Paul Wellstone wasn’t the first U.S. senator from Minnesota to die in a plane crash. That dubious distinction belongs to Ernest P. Lundeen, who was killed along […]
by David Maurer The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA March 1, 2009 The skies above Charlottesville were cloudy, and rain was expected before nightfall on Aug. 31, 1940. That Saturday morning Mrs. Ralph Hale had said goodbye […]
Jump in our Wayback Machine to the days of VHS videotapes, and watch two back-to-back Lovettsville Episodes of the public access television program Loudoun Scrapbook on YouTube. Guests interviewed and people thanked by the producers […]
Did you know that Lovettsville’s downtown district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places? And that Lovettsville is the only town or village in Loudoun County with a museum dedicated to its own […]
By Cornelius F. Foote Jr., Washington Post, November 25, 1989. Nancy Orndorff, 54, describes herself as a die-hard resident of Loudoun County. But more than that, she is sold on Lovettsville, her home for more […]
Amid a beautiful setting of canlabra, palms, farm, gladioli and mums, Miss Elaine Dolores Painter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Painter of Lovettsville, and Clifton Thomas Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Walker […]
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