Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Furnishes Milk 70 r
Capital and Is
Not, E d for
Horses.
Growth Is Steady
nv e al y Residents
Build Homes In
Picturesque
Valley.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

IsOudoun county. va, one VI tlic !Ai0"
fruitful agricultural regions south
the Potomac. was written sometnlis
like 12 600. 900 years ago by the mos
accurate and at the same time thu
most obscure of all historians-tathel
Time.
In the neighborhood of what is nov
fhe village of Aldie the grabbed Ole
fellow scrubbed page after page OF
Smperishable tablets of rock. 1t was
weird, glamourous story of horrible
great reptiles roaring and wallowlns
in the primitive Swamps before the
Bull Run mountains were raised IRON
the depths. At Oak Hill. near Alone
the former residence of PreSlden
lanes Monroe. many of these SLABS
hearing dinosaur tracks have beer
preseryed as a part of the garden
decorations. Others are on exhibit a.
the Smithsonian Institution.
Then comes great gap to the days
of frontier trading posts thronget
with hunters. trappers, Indian traders
and relocated soldiers of the KING
the days of history written on parch
ment instead of sandstone. From
those days to the present 1t is tas
chatting tale. Loudoun County eplto
mixes the entirss. tory of the Unitec
history of the Nation has not had Its
reflex there.
~ Affords Beautiful Picture.
~ is a region of picturesque noun
fa4ns interspersed with valleys winch
AFFORD picture of pastoral prosperity
hardly exceeded in the United states
Along it's western frontier runs the
BIhe Ridge range. Then comes the
famous Loudoun valley. with Its
Ilnbroken expanse of wheat and corn
feds. Coming east, the traveller
meets with the Catoctin range, eX'
tending out of Maryland and gradu,
ally fading away in the beautiful Bull
Bun hills.
EF,yerv square mile of the territory
has been fought over. Braddock
Soldiers marched along its saddle
tfails. George Washington ran his
transits among these hills. Bloody
battles with drawn sabers were fought
near each of the villages. The county
lisa living museum of history.
although the great trading center OF
the county is the National Capltal,
Washington people are only beginning
to discover the charm of it's byways
off the three hard-surfaced, roads.
tsThe $40 square-mile area of noun
tain, hill and valley included in the
present Loudoun County was settled
is8zfour successive waves. First. start
ing about 1925, came the Virginia
cavaliers from the lower plantations,
Who established themselves in the ter
.I3tbry between the Potomac and the
present town of Middleburg and from
TIE Bull Run and Catocin Mountains
eastward to the Fairfax line. This
land still was part of Prince William
County and the property of Thomas,
Lord Fairfax, who gave S9-year leases
: at the rate of shillings per 100
acres per year.
Build Log Church.
These families built the first log
church, branch of Pohick parish,
known as 1.-The Chapel Above Goose
Creek" It's location recently has
been determined and marked with a
tsblet by the present Episcopal church
Of Leesburg. At the same time was
found the coffin of Col. Burgess Ball,
one of the first of the cavalier settlers,
who had been buried in the church
yard.
HAfter the cavaliers came a body
df%Palatinate Germans, 60 or more
families, who emigrated from west
eYn Pennsylvania, where their settle
Ynents had proved untenable against
the Indians. They took up approx
rt1ately 125 square miles in the north
western section, a greater part OF
which now is included in the LoVetts'
Vile magisterial district. The main
group came in 1882, bringing with
them sheep and cattle, and Tor the
next 90 years additional German set.
I...E IT,, fraN1
New York.
Then arrived the Quakers, about %
families at first, from England and
northern Ireland. They settled
south of the Germans. in what now
ia the jefferson magisterial district,
and established the village or Water.
ford, after the native town Of one OF
the leaders in Ireland.
Settled by Refugees.
The fourth group of Loudoun set
tiers was made up of refugees from
Braddock's army who fed back
through the Bluemont pass, as many
of them as were left alive, after the
massacre near Fort DuQuesne.
Descendants of these four groups
still constitute the major portion OF
the population. They have remained
1aAEIy OlSttilCL LII OuSH IiiC . ~
ton of Loudoun County's history
There has been little intermarriage
until recent years. Their Interests
have not always been the same. The
cavaliers and other Virginians were
cotton planters who sought vast hold
ifgs and great numbers of slaves
The Germans and Quakers turned &c
diversified farming from the hrst
The former, tilling the soil with thell
own hands. objected to the lnefnclenl
labor of the slaves and owned lew OF
them. Their position was probably
More economic than moral. the
OJakers were unalterably opposed &c
slavery on moral grounds. The ClVl
War found the Germans against the
institution of slavery almost to mar
and hundreds of them fought WIT
tie Northern armies. Some or the
o,,akers also took up arms against
their old neighbors.
New Element Added.
srhere has been fifth and very re
KAT element of population added L
AZ county, which is quite distinct
tse wealthy horse breeders and fan
ciars who are grouped about Aide an
Hftdd,ehurg. They are standing in tn
footsteps OF some of the Vanishe
cavalier families.
As the settlements spread northwar
Fairfax County was cut OF irol
Ppince William. In 1921 I1oudou
Cnnnty was created out or falrlaA
sseciaj act of the House of Burgesse:
Which resulted from a petition OF tn
i1habitants for a courthouse of thel
own. 1t was too cumbersome. the
said. 10 ride 80 miles or more TO Fan
fax TO transact all public business.
At that time the nominal governo
of Virginia was John Campbell. Lor
Ioudoun. He never actually held o
fee and probably never visited IN
colony. He had come to the me-
world in 1855 as commander-in-ch chic
Of the British forces in North Americ;
then ged in the last of the Frenc
and Indian Wars. His inefficienc
won him the contempt not only of til
colonists but of the British officer