Historical Markers and War Memorials in Purcellville, Virginia
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Purcellville is in Loudoun County
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The mill, now the home of Magnolias at the Mill, was built in 1905. Most recently it had served in the production of pasture seed for the Contee Adam Seed Company, operated by three generations of the Adams. The mural above depicts Lynn Adams and . . . — — Map (db m132454) HM
Crossing this school site, the Loudoun and Berlin Turnpike once intersected the Leesburg & Snicker’s Gap Turnpike at a junction just ahead known as Heaton’s Crossroads. On Saturday, July 16, 1864, Gen. Jubal A. Early’s Confederate army passed . . . — — Map (db m1072) HM
In June 1864, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee sent Gen. Jubal A. Early's corps from the Richmond battlefields to the Shenandoah Valley to counter Union Gen. David Hunter's army. After driving Hunter into West Virginia, Early invaded . . . — — Map (db m159199) HM
The trail ends here but the story does not. The founders of the Alexandria, Loudoun, & Hampshire (later the W&OD) sought to rival the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for the coal of West Virginia and the trade of the Ohio Valley. By 1900 the railroad . . . — — Map (db m24307) HM
Electrification arrived in 1912, after the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the Southern Railway’s Bluemont Branch were consolidated into the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new owners brought modern interurban trolley cars. Wire . . . — — Map (db m19330) HM
The Virginia General Assembly approved plans for the Loudoun Branch (parts of which survive here) of the Manassas Gap Railroad on 8 March 1853, and construction soon began. The route extended 27 miles from just southwest of Chantilly on the main . . . — — Map (db m7278) HM
The association was organized by African Americans in nearby Hamilton in 1890 to commemorate the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on 22 Sept. 1862 and “to cultivate good fellowship, to work for the . . . — — Map (db m1793) HM
In memory of early settlers of the Loudoun Valley
This springhouse is reconstructed with stones of the original structure and written into history by John Jay Janney, who was raised here. He was the grandson of Mahlon Taylor, and the . . . — — Map (db m159200) HM
The tracks are long gone, but Purcellville's train station still occupies the ground it has stood on since 1904. It replaced a depot built at about the same time that the railroad arrived in 1874 and accommodated passengers, mail, and freight. The . . . — — Map (db m24360) HM
Lt. John Chew 1749-1838 •
Pvt. James Copeland 1759-1838 •
Ens. John Copeland 1752-1807 •
Surg. James Heaton 1759-1824 •
Cpt. Thomas Humphrey 1742-1822 •
Pvt. Abel Marks 1754-1785 •
Cpt. Isaiah Marks 1754-1785 •
Ens. John Marks . . . — — Map (db m214367) WM
This building was erected in 1921 as the J. Lodge Motor Company, becoming one of the earliest Buick dealerships in the region. Joseph Lodge and Raymond Case operated the business together until Raymond's passing in 1944.
In 1953, Joseph Lodge . . . — — Map (db m132456) HM
The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The B&O was diverting farm produce from the . . . — — Map (db m19331) HM
Pvt. John Chamblin 1794-1840 •
Cpl. James Cochran 1774-1851 •
Cpl. Andrew Copeland 1791-1855 •
Pvt. Jesse D. Dowell 1798-1867 •
Pvt. Andrew Graham 1773-1862 •
Pvt. James Hill 1774-1860 •
Pvt. Marcus Humphrey 1784-1839 •
Cpt. Thomas . . . — — Map (db m214366) WM
The 100-foot-wide Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park (W&OD Trail) features a 45-mile asphalt trail for walking, running, skating, bicycling and other activities and a 33-mile, parallel, gravel bridle path for horseback riding and . . . — — Map (db m214369) HM
