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This barn appears on the 1875 James Oden Survey of Waterford, so we know it dates from that time, if not earlier. In 1986, the Waterford Foundation purchased this barn and the 1 ˝ acres of land it sits on. In 1992, the barn was added to the . . . — — Map (db m214377) HM
This mill housed a set of machinery that processed raw material into finished products. It produced flour from grain, thus it was a gristmill. The milling complex also powered a saw and at one time a cider mill. Amos Janney's small original mill . . . — — Map (db m4243) HM
Created under authorization of the U.S. Secretary of War, the Independent Loudoun Rangers were the only organized Union cavalry unit in Confederate Virginia. Their first captain, local miller Samuel C. Means, mustered two companies from local . . . — — Map (db m42619) HM
Beginning in the 1730s, Waterford's residents developed productive farms, a series of mills, and a transportation network. By the early 1800s, Thomas Phillips, an enterprising Quaker, farmed the land in front of you.
To ensure access to the . . . — — Map (db m143137) HM
The first office building owned by the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Loudoun County Organized March 12, 1849 Occupied by the company from 1872 to 1901 — — Map (db m4244) HM
Built
1910 (new auditorium 2012)
Historic Use
Elementary and high school for white children.
Current Use
Foundation office; Waterford Fair, concerts, lectures, meetings
The current building was . . . — — Map (db m214379) HM
Thomas Phillip established this family farm beginning about 1798. By 1850, under his son Thomas, the farm's annual yield included 500 bushels of wheat, 400 pounds of butter, 65 pounds of wool, and 60 pounds of honey and beeswax.
This highly . . . — — Map (db m143139) HM
Built 1867
Historic Use
School for African Americans of the area, 1867-1957; served also as a church for that community.
Current Use
Site of a living-history program for area fourth graders role playing actual . . . — — Map (db m214375) HM
15481 Second Street •
Built
1875–1885 •
Historic Use —
Housed harness-making, tin roofing and tinware businesses; post office (1885–1897)
• Current Use —
Waterford Fair; office space
The Tin Shop is built over a creek which . . . — — Map (db m2349) HM
Amos Janney's enterprising son Mahlon inherited the first mill in 1747 and soon improved it. By 1762 he had built a new, larger mill of of stone and wood on this site. The brick structure here today replaced Mahlon's mill in the 1820s. The . . . — — Map (db m4241) HM
Historically Quaker and abolitionist Waterford decisively split with Loudoun County's pro-Confederate majority and rejected secession (220 votes to 31) in Virginia's May 1861 referendum. Many residents fled to Maryland as Southern troops occupied . . . — — Map (db m42622) HM
Historically Quaker and abolitionist Waterford decisively split with Loudoun County's pro-Confederate majority and rejected secession (220 votes to 31) in Virginia's May 1861 referendum. Many residents fled to Maryland as Southern troops occupied . . . — — Map (db m214378) HM
Amos and Mary Janney, Quakers from Bucks County, PA, settled here ca. 1733. Others soon followed, forming a manufacturing and commercial center that served the surrounding farmland. By mid-century the village was known as Janney's Mill after its . . . — — Map (db m214376) HM
Amos Janney, a Pennsylvania Quaker, settled on the south fork of Catoctin Creek around 1733. Other Quakers soon followed drawn by the fertile land. Most were grain farmers, making a mill an early priority. By the early 1740s, Janney had built a . . . — — Map (db m5597) HM
At dawn on August 27, 1862, Captain E.V. White's 60-man company, nucleus of the 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, attacked 28 men of Captain S.C. Means' Company of Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers (Union) encamped here in this church. After . . . — — Map (db m42623) HM
