Tag: Loudoun County History

Nature, Writing, and the Friends Literary Society of Waterford, Virginia

Nature, Writing, and the Friends Literary Society of Waterford, Virginia

Amos and Mary Janney, Quakers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania , moved south to the Catoctin Valley of Virginia about 1733. The community grew as more Quakers followed the Janneys to build mills, plant farmlands, and build houses and shops. The area, then part of Fairfax […]

Celebrating National Women’s History Month: Women in Art and Literature – Lida Dutton, Lizzie Dutton, and Sarah Steer – Civil War Journalists

Celebrating National Women’s History Month: Women in Art and Literature – Lida Dutton, Lizzie Dutton, and Sarah Steer – Civil War Journalists

. . . Let us be up and doing – old and young – we have no time to idle; every quickly flitting moment is to be improved, every space filled up. Words to inspire. These lines graced the third edition of The Waterford News, a […]