“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
Originally submitted by Amanda Conard on 11-26-16: an undated photo of a graduating class from Lovettsville High School. Photo, compliments of the James S Conard family. Additional information supplied on 12-12-16 by Walter Fleming, who identified […]
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 […]
We are committed to preserving and promoting the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and the surrounding area known as “The German Settlement”. Displayed are various artifacts, photographs, documentation, household articles, tools, genealogy […]
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, where it will be welcomed with gratitude at the Lovettsville Museum during a […]
We are committed to preserving and promoting the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and the surrounding area known as “The German Settlement”. Displayed are various artifacts, photographs, documentation, household articles, tools, genealogy […]
We are committed to preserving and promoting the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and the surrounding area known as The German Settlement. Displayed are various artifacts, photographs, documentation, household articles, tools, genealogy, […]
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 […]
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA: Loudoun County is home to many museums and art galleries. Here is TripAdvisor’s list of top 20 museums and art galleries in Loudoun County, according to reader reviews on the site.* National […]
The museum preserves and promotes the history and heritage of the Town of Lovettsville and its surrounding area. We offer a number of displays of historical items and provide information regarding Lovettsville’s past and present […]
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 […]
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 […]
LIFE Magazine, March 10, 1941, page 27 [On August 31, 1940] Into a cornfield [near Lovettsville, VA] crashed a Pennsylvania-Central Airlines plane killing all 25 people aboard, including U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen. The CAA gave […]
REPORT OF THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD Of the investigation of an accident involving aircraft of United States registry NC 21789, which occurred near Lovettsville, Virginia, on August 31, 1940 P. C. A. http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot.gov/Document?db=DOT-AIRPLANEACCIDENTS&query=(select+88) TABLE OF […]
LIFE Magazine, September 16, 1940: “AIRPLANE CRACK-UP, WORST CRASH IN HISTORY, KILLS SENATOR LUNDEEN” The news U.S. air-transport men have been dreading finally came in August 31, 1940. That afternoon a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport […]
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C, GRAVURE SECTION SEPTEMBER 8, 1940 “TRAGEDY ON THE AIRWAYS” Jumbled wreckage of crashed airliner as night falls on gruesome scene where 25 persons met death near Lovettsville, Virginia in the worst […]
Farm Boy Tells Story of Plane Crash Killing 25 Testifies at Inquiry by Aeronautics Board Chicago Daily Tribune, September 7, 1940, page 8 Chicago Tribune Press Service Washington, D.C., September 6, 1940 Warren McGaha, 13 years […]
25 Killed When Passenger Plane Crashes Senator Lundeen of Minnesota Is One of Air Tragedy Victims Several Government Officials Lose Lives in Worst Airplane Accident U. S. Has Even Seen; Probe Is On The Coshocton […]
25 DIE IN AIRPLANE CRASH; SEN. LUNDEEN AMONG VICTIMS 21 Passengers and Four Crew Members Reported Dead; Worst Disaster in U. S. Commercial Aviation History The Zanesville Signal Ohio, September 1, 1940 Lovettsville, Va., Aug. […]
25 Dead in Crash of Air Transport; Lundeen Is Killed In Virginia Storm Crash Near Mountain in Fog and Rain Startles Village Dwellers By Telephone to THE NEW YORK TIMES LOVETTSVILLE, Va., Aug. 31, 1940 […]
“The German Settlement,” by Goodhart, Briscoe. [from old catalog], Published 1900, PDF download: 1900-the-german-settlement-book-by-briscoe-goodhart . Download other formats at: https://archive.org/details/germansettlement00good . Publisher [Hamilton, Loudoun telephone office Pages 68 Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language English Call number 7254536 Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation Book contributor The Library of […]
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