LOUDOUN DISCOVERED: Communities, Corners & Crossroads

Some thirty-five years ago, Eugene Scheel, local historian and mapmaker, wrote a series of articles for the Loudoun Times-Mirror showcasing the more than one hundred communities of Loudoun County. While the articles were archived at Thomas Balch Library, the Friends' organization wished them preserved in a form that would make them available to many more people. Because of the large scope of the project, the stories were divided into five geographical volumes. Published in 2002 and 2003, the articles are updated and illustrated with photos and maps appropriate to each volume. Mr. Scheel also created an accompanying map of the County showing each community’s location. Indexed.
$20.00 per volume; $10.00 historical map; $100.00 five-volume set with map

Volume 1: “Eastern Loudoun: “Goin’ Down the Country” tells the story of establishment and the life and times of old and new communities in the large areas east and south of Leesburg, along present-day Route 7 and Route 50. Because of intensive development of that area, many of those communities are gone, or altered beyond recognition.

Volume 2: “Leesburg and the Old Carolina Road” The Carolina Road is today’s Route 15. These stories describe towns, villages, and plantations along the road from Point of Rocks, Maryland in the north to the county’s southern border with Prince William County.

Volume 3: “The Hunt Country and Middleburg” covers communities on Route 50 from Gilbert’s Corner to the Blue Ridge. One of the most beautiful areas, it is somewhat unchanged and provides a panorama of Loudoun vistas lost to development in other areas of the county.

Volume 4: “Quaker Country and the Loudoun Valley” takes one from the top of Catoctin Mountain at Clark’s Gap along Route 7 to the top of the Blue Ridge. Once the Great Road to the west, most of these communities are still thriving and coping with development. This volume describes contributions made by Quakers to the area. Perhaps the greatest change has been the loss of this area as the county’s most fertile and productive agricultural region.

Volume 5: “Waterford, the German Settlement and Between the Hills” tells the story of the county’s northernmost communities and hamlets, which can be visited by traveling along today’s Route 9 and north on Routes 287 and 671; notable is the story of how this area’s reaction to the Civil War differed from most of the rest of the county.

A TASTE OF LOUDOUN COUNTY: Our Favorite Recipes 1903-1951
Home Interest Club Cookbook - Centennial Edition
This small volume celebrates the hundred-year anniversary of the Home Interest Club of Upper Loudoun. Founded in the Lincoln vicinity by a group of Quaker ladies, these women shared with others interest not only in their homes, but in travel, literature, world wars, women’s suffrage, sewing, home decorating and child care. These recipes, presented by members between 1903 and 1951, provide a view of life quite different from today’s fast food world, and allow us a glimpse of a domestic time not usually found in most histories. $10.00 Retail

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