Earliest Black School in Virginia?
Elizabeth Janney (1802-1893) wrote her husband from their home in the village of Goose Creek (renamed “Lincoln”) on September 27,Continue Reading
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Roads to Civil War mapped by a Quaker
Yardley Taylor grew apple trees, delivered county mail, wrote anti-slavery essays, and in 1853 surveyed a map of Loudoun County.Continue Reading
William Tate’s journal of American History
Quaker William Tate lived outside the village of Lincoln, Virginia all his life. He was a man of modest recordContinue Reading
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Loudoun County, Virginia’s Thomas Balch archives library, has an active Black History committee. Among much information, their website lists “RunawayContinue Reading
Risking All for Freedom
Harry was in a terrible situation: it was 1828 and he was an enslaved man in Loudoun County, Virginia. HarryContinue Reading
John and Ann Janney: A desperate West Indies journey in 1823
John Janney of Alexandria, Virginia was Elizabeth Hopkins Janney’s father. Elizabeth Hopkins Janney (1802-1893) married her cousin, Samuel McPherson Janney,Continue Reading
Judy Gaskins: an American Life
The following newspaper interview from the Philadelphia and Lancaster Journal, August 11, 1880, has been transcribed by Bronwen Souders. TheContinue Reading
Friends sometimes marry Neighbors
Loudoun County Confederate cavalryman Luther W. Hopkins (1843-1920) wrote a memoir of his service in the Civil War, From BullContinue Reading
The John Pleasants and Thomas Ritchie Duel
Prominent 19th century Virginia Quaker, Samuel McPherson Janney, had a connection with John Pleasants, the newspaper editor killed in aContinue Reading
Freedmen’s Bureau teachers: Heroines of Loudoun County
Isabella Skillman was a graduate of one of the earliest women’s colleges in the country, New York’s Rutgers Female Institute.Continue Reading
