Historical Markers and War Memorials in Purcellville, Virginia
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Purcellville is in Loudoun County
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On North 21st Street (Virginia Route 1604) east of North 23rd Street (Virginia Route 690), on the right when traveling west.
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
On North Maple Avenue north of East Main Street (Business Virginia Route 7), on the right when traveling east.
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
On East Main Street (Virginia Route 7) at North Hatcher Avenue on East Main Street.
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
On North 21st Street (County Route 690) at North 23rd Street on North 21st Street.
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
On North Maple Avenue (County Route 722), on the right when traveling west.
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
On Sands Road (County Route 709) at Manassas Gap Court, on the right when traveling east on Sands Road.
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
On South 20th Street / Telegraph Springs Road (County Route 611), on the left when traveling south.
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
On East Main Street (Virginia Route 7) at Pickwick Drive, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.
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
On North 21st Street at North 23rd Street, on the right when traveling north on North 21st Street.
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 m238281) HM
Near Ketoctin Church Road (Virginia Route 716) 0.1 miles south of Allder School Road (Virginia Route 711), on the right when traveling south.
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
On West Main Street (Virginia Route 7) at North 21st Street (Virginia Route 1604), on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
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
On North Hatcher Avenue (County Route 611), on the right when traveling north.
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
Near Ketoctin Church Road (Virginia Route 716) 0.1 miles south of Alider School Road (Virginia Route 711), on the right when traveling south.
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
On Washington and Old Dominion Trail, 0.1 miles east of North 21st Street (Virginia Route 690), on the right when traveling west.
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
