News Stories Tagged "history"

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Family Saga Is Hardly Run-of-the-Mill

Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009

For the past century, business at Loudoun County Milling, on the outskirts of Hamilton, has been a family affair. Read story »

A Civil War Piece, Put In Its Set

Transfer of Church To Aid Park Exhibit

Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Battle of Aldie during the Civil War erupted at the site of Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church and then progressed west toward Aldie Mill. Read story »

Landmark Not Showing Its Age

1797's Rock Hill Farm Noted on Virginia Register

Sunday, June 28, 2009

As an architectural historian working for the state, David Edwards surveyed about 500 historic properties in 1980. Of the dozens of houses, barns, schools and churches he evaluated, Rock Hill Farm in Loudoun County stood out. Read story »

Weekend Roundup: Summer Concerts Heating up in Loudoun

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Summer is heating up in Loudoun and that can only mean one thing: it's concert season! With multiple concerts in Leesburg and a concert in Purcellville, it is shaping up to be a very musical weekend. If you're not feeling the music, then there is a Civil War exhibit in Leesburg that might be more your tune. Read story and 2 comments »

A Forgotten Grave Marker Is Finally Identified

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Driving along U.S. Route 50, the John Mosby Highway, one might notice a lone upright stone by a gnarled and spreading tree. The site is on the south side of the highway, a few hundred yards east of the Atoka Road corner. Read story and 3 comments »

The Future of This Old House Is in Supervisors' Hands

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The last vestige of Lunette, which was a 40-person town in eastern Loudoun County at the turn of the 20th century, is a dilapidated farmhouse stuck in a modern housing development in Aldie. Read story and 24 comments »

Saga of an American Family

In Old Papers, Details of Loudoun Life From 1819 to 1995

Sunday, June 14, 2009

In the early 19th century, a young naval officer who served on various ships exchanged dozens of affectionate letters with his wife in Erie, Pa. George Pearce wrote frequently to his spouse before his death from yellow fever aboard a ship in the Caribbean. Read story and 1 comment »

Virginia's Rattlesnake Flag: Coiled and Ready to Strike

Sunday, June 7, 2009

The green landscape of spring has been dotted lately with U.S. flags and banners, with Memorial Day having recently passed and Flag Day arriving a week from today. On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States. Read story »

PHOTOS: Riding Down Memory Lane at the Classic Car Show

Monday, June 1, 2009

Morven Park hosted its second annual Classic Car Cruise-in on Saturday. Read story »

Va. Ponders Eliminating Third-Grade History Exam

Thursday, May 28, 2009

In the seven years since enactment of the federal No Child Left Behind law, students have spent ever more time filling in bubbles on high-stakes tests. But Virginia could soon join a movement to roll back testing programs, as it considers abandoning an exam that spans such matters as bartering, the ancient empire of Mali and pie charts. Read story and 1 comment »

Remembering a Civilian Casualty of the Vietnam War

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Loudoun County's Vietnam War memorial is a large cenotaph on Leesburg's courthouse green. Dedicated on Veterans Day 1988, it is inscribed, "In Honor of the Loudoun Citizens Who Served in Vietnam and in Memory of Those Who Died." Read story »

Toward a More Stately Mansion

Preservationists Hopeful That Selma Can Be Saved

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

From a distance, the 107-year-old Leesburg area mansion known as Selma retains much of its grandeur and charm. Read story »

Purcellville Turns Out for 'Heritage Day' Celebration

Monday, May 18, 2009

Purcellville's annual Heritage Day drew large crowds of families looking to celebrate the town and its history. Read story and 3 comments »

Gather Ye Mushrooms While Ye May

Sunday, May 3, 2009

For gatherers of mushrooms in the southeastern United States, the Blue Ridge region is the place to go in April and the first half of May. Only in that window does the morel, the toadstool family's harbinger of spring, peek through decaying leaves. Morels are among the tastiest of fungi. Read story »

From Loudoun, Shoes for Darfur

Monday, April 27, 2009

Thirty thousand pairs of shoes were laid out around the reflecting pool near the U.S. Capitol yesterday to draw attention to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Read story and 1 comment »

Mansion Straddles Centuries

Behind the Artifacts Technology Is Added

Saturday, April 25, 2009

A modest farmhouse in the late 18th century, Morven Park went through several upgrades on its way to becoming a sprawling mansion. Read story »

Confederate Icons Hold Ground as Va. Politics Evolve

State Has Highest Density of Statues

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Calendar of health events in Loudoun County. Read story »

Wish You Were Here - in 1911

Falls Church Woman's Postcard Collection Offers Shapshots of Va. History

Thursday, March 5, 2009

"Gee, it's hot down here," wrote a peevish traveler to Middleburg in 1940. This snippet of Virginia history spilled out of a wheeled suitcase on a recent morning — just a few of the hundreds of postcards from around the state that Josie Ballato, a government employee who lives in Falls Church, has amassed. Read story »

Remembering When a House Call Cost $5

Sunday, March 1, 2009

The recent debate over building a hospital in Broadlands made me think back to previous incarnations of Inova Loudoun Hospital. I decided to have a talk with Earl Edward Virts Jr., one of 10 physicians who staffed Loudoun Hospital in the late 1950s and early '60s. Read story »

A Journey Toward More Tourism Cash

Officials Say Heritage Area Is Paying Off

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

The organization that promotes the national heritage tour called A Journey Through Hallowed Ground says that when it comes to the 175-mile swath of parks and historic landmarks stretching from Gettysburg past Monticello, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Read story and 1 comment »

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