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History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia By: James William Head (1883-) |
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HISTORY AND COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF LOUDOUN COUNTY VIRGINIA BY JAMES W. HEAD PARK VIEW PRESS Copyright 1908
by JAMES W. HEAD
Dedication. TO MY MOTHER,
WHOSE LOVE FOR LOUDOUN IS NOT LESS ARDENT
AND UNDYING THAN MY OWN, THIS VOLUME,
THE SINGLE AMBITION AND FONDEST
ACHIEVEMENT OF MY LIFE,
IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
"Loudoun County exemplifies country life in about the purest and
pleasantest form that I have yet found in the United States. Not that
it is a rural Utopia by any means, but the chief ideals of the life
there are practically identical with those that have made country life
in the English counties world famous. As a type, this is, in fact, the
real thing. No sham, no artificiality, no suspicion of mushroom
growth, no evidence of exotic forcing are to be found in Loudoun, but
the culmination of a century's development." "So much, then, to show briefly that Loudoun County life is a little
out of the ordinary, here in America, and hence worth talking about.
There are other communities in Virginia and elsewhere that are worthy
of eulogy, but I know of none that surpasses Loudoun in the dignity,
sincerity, naturalness, completeness and genuine success of its
country life." WALTER A. DYER, in Country Life in America .
Table of Contents. INTRODUCTION
Descriptive Department. SITUATION BOUNDARIES TOPOGRAPHY COMPARATIVE ALTITUDES DRAINAGE CLIMATE GEOLOGY Summary Granite Loudoun Formation Weverton Sandstone Newark System Newark Diabase Catoctin Schist Rocks of the Piedmont Plain Lafayette Formation Metamorphism MINERAL AND KINDRED DEPOSITS SOILS Summary Loudoun Sandy Loam
Penn Clay Penn Stony Loam Iredell Clay Loam Penn Loam Cecil Loam Cecil Clay Cecil Silt Loam Cecil Mica Loam De Kalb Stony Loam Porters Clay Meadow FLORA AND FAUNA Flora Fauna TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES TOWNS AND VILLAGES Leesburg Round Hill Waterford Hamilton Purcellville Middleburg Ashburn Bluemont Smaller Towns
Statistical Department. AREA AND FARMING TABULATIONS POPULATION INDUSTRIES FARM VALUES LIVE STOCK Values Animals Sold and Slaughtered Neat cattle Dairy Products Steers Horses, Mules, etc. Sheep, Goats, and Swine Domestic Wool Poultry and Bees SOIL PRODUCTS Values Corn and Wheat Oats, Rye, and Buckwheat Hay and Forage Crops Miscellaneous Crops, etc. Orchard Fruits, etc. Small Fruits, etc. Flowers, Ornamental Plants, etc. FARM LABOR AND FERTILIZERS Labor Fertilizers EDUCATION AND RELIGION Education Religion
Historical Department. FORMATION DERIVATION OF NAME SETTLEMENT AND PERSONNEL EARLY HABITS, CUSTOMS, AND DRESS Habits Customs Dress FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR REPRESENTATION Colonial Assemblies State Conventions THE REVOLUTION Loudoun's Loyalty Resolutions of Loudoun County Revolutionary Committees Soldiery Quaker Non Participation Loudoun's Revolutionary Hero Army Recommendations Court Orders and Reimbursements Close of the Struggle WAR OF 1812 The Compelling Cause State Archives at Leesburg THE MASON MCCARTY DUEL HOME OF PRESIDENT MONROE GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT MEXICAN WAR SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR Loudoun County in the Secession Movement Loudoun's Participation in the War The Loudoun Rangers (Federal) Mosby's Command in its Relationship to Loudoun County Mosby at Hamilton (Poem) Battle of Leesburg ("Ball's Bluff") Munford's Fight at Leesburg Battle at Aldie Duffie at Middleburg The Sacking of Loudoun Home Life During the War Pierpont's Pretentious Administration Emancipation Close of the War RECONSTRUCTION After the Surrender Conduct of the Freedmen CONCLUSION
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