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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25Q4_fairfax-meeting-of-friends_Waterford-VA.html
This building
Erected 1761 · Enlarged 1771
Restored 1868
Sheltered the
Fairfax Meeting of Friends
Formed in Waterford 1733
Monthly meeting set up 1745
Quarterly meeting set up 1758
Monthly meeting laid down 1929
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSLA_waterford-baptist-church_Waterford-VA.html
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 thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSL9_waterford_Waterford-VA.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSL6_independent-loudoun-virginia-rangers_Waterford-VA.html
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 Quak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM37I_waterford-an-old-mill-town_Waterford-VA.html
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 si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28V_mutual-fire-insurance-company-of-loudoun-county_Waterford-VA.html
The firstoffice buildingowned by theMutual FireInsuranceCompanyof LoudounCountyOrganized March 12, 1849Occupied by thecompany from1872 to 1901
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28U_how-it-works_Waterford-VA.html
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 mil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28S_the-waterford-mill_Waterford-VA.html
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 surr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVV_the-tin-shop_Waterford-VA.html
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 …