At Lightfoot Restaurant, LeesburgCapture Date: Jun 13, 2014 08:17 PM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Leesburg eveningCapture Date: Jun 13, 2014 08:18 PM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The essentials-A truck and a houseCapture Date: Jun 13, 2014 08:20 PM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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17th Century homes, Waterford, VA
Waterford is an unincorporated village in the Catoctin Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located along Catoctin Creek. Waterford is 47 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., and 7 miles northwest of Leesburg. The entire village and surrounding countryside is a National Historic Landmark district. The town was first settled by Quakers.
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1800's stone dwelling, Waterford, VA
The original Waterford families were soon followed by other Quakers who would all play leading roles over many years in the development of Waterford. In the 1760s the early Quakers were joined by numbers of Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans and Baptists. This influx of non-Anglicans is noteworthy considering the firm hold of the established Church of England in colonial Virginia.
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The girls in Waterford, VA
Waterford was founded about 1733 by Amos Janney, a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Other Quakers followed him there. Mills were built along Catoctin Creek. The village grew until it was the second largest town in Loudoun County (this was before the Civil War). Many buildings still in use in the village were built before 1840. Known as Janney's Mill until the 1780s, the early commercial center then became the village of Waterford.
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Waterford boasts several pre-Revolution buildingsCapture Date: Jun 14, 2014 09:43 AM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Arched passage way, WaterfordCapture Date: Jun 14, 2014 09:43 AM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Antique homes, Waterford, VA
Waterford had two or three names in colonial times; Janney's Mill, Fairfax, and Milltown. While the first two names are part of the historical record, the third's textural appearance in found first in 1915, the anonymous writer asserting that "Mill Town" was a name for the village in its founding era. ... the same anonymous writer, who in 1915 first called the early hamlet "Mill Town," also forwarded to us the origin of the village's present name: "One of the most enterprising citizens an Irish Shoemaker by the name of Thomas Moore had emigrated this country from or near Waterford in Ireland. And he very patriotically named the rising city for the place of his birth.
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A quaint Post Office, Waterford
Waterford's stagnationleave site as a commercial center after the Civil War meant it was not worth demolishing the old to make way for new development. The old town and its surrounding farms were able to slumber undisturbed, like Rip Van Winkle, for many years, By 1937, when the Historic American Buildings Survey was completed in Waterford, most buildings in the village were falling into disrepair – or falling apart.
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A quaint Post Office, Waterford
In the 1930s members of old Waterford families, beginning with brothers Edward and Leroy Chamberlin, began buying and restoring buildings. These restorationists established the Waterford Foundation in 1943 to "revive and stimulate a community interest in re-creating the town of Waterford as it existed in previous times with its varying crafts and activities. The Foundation has played an important role in revitalizing the physical fabric of Waterford as well as increasing the public's knowledge of life and work in an early American rural community. In 1970, Waterford and 1,420 surrounding acres were designated a National Historic Landmark. Another 1943 milestone was the creation of the Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibitby the Waterford Foundation. This annual event now draws some 30,000 visitors the first weekend every October.
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The Waterford Corner Store
The Corner Store sits literally atop a small creek—the Town Branch—and occupies a strategic location at the intersection of Waterford's main streets. The present building, erected about 1900, replaced an earlier smaller store built of log covered with weatherboard. Note the unusual shape of the building to fit it onto the triangular site.
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Beautiful Summer Garden, WaterfordCapture Date: Jun 14, 2014 09:45 AM•Views: 14No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The Corner Store, WaterfordCapture Date: Jun 14, 2014 09:46 AM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Georgia strolling in WaterfordCapture Date: Jun 14, 2014 09:47 AM•Views: 13No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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