Bulletin of Loudoun County History

In November of 2018, Diversity Fairs of Virginia (now called the Edwin Washington Society)  took ownership of  the Bulletin of  the Loudoun County Historical Society, now called the Bulletin of Loudoun County History.  This included all rights, including the right to republish old issues.   Copies are also available at the Balch Library, Photoworks of Leesburg and the Prosperity Baptist Church.

From 1957 to 1976, then from 1997 to 2001 and in its last phase from 2004 to 2018, before owenrship changed, the periodical was the effort of the Loudoun County Historical Society.   By agreement with the Trustees, it is now owned and all rights preserved by the Edwin Washington Soceity,  which is a 501(c)(3).  We are deeply honored to manage this journal, which will remain non-partisan and dedicated to exploring Loudoun’s special history in as professional and non-partisan a manner as possible. The Bulletin is also committed to incorporating more articles on the history of Blacks and other minorities that had been in the past.

Additional information on the Bulletin will be posted on our Facebook Page, as well as our corporate page.  We also plan to post information on prior editions.  Please feel welcome as well to write to the Editorial Committee at  Office of the Edwin Washington Society, 407 E. Market Street, Suite 106, Leesburg, Va. 20176.

Special Edition Proposed for the Winter of 2025/2026

A regular annual edition will be published in October, 2025, but the Editors are also considering producing a Special 2025/2026 Edition that would include a selection of article from past isues, especially those written before 2018.  Most of these article are not in digital form.  If you have a copy and think it is worthy of republication, please send to the Bulletin of Loudoun County History by June 1 or elave a copy at the offices of the Edwin Washington Society, 407 E. Market Street, Suite 106, Leesburg, Va. 20176.

 

Bulletin of Loudoun County History: 2024/2025 Edition

Covers:

  1. History of the "Upward Struggle Statue" erected in front of Douglass HS in Leesburg, Va, by Larry Roeder
  2. Fighting Segregation at the Purcellville Library, by Paul Paul McCray
  3. Tracing on Enslaved Community Trafficked from Virginia to Louisiana, by Emily Stanfill
  4. A history of the old shop at Douglass High School, also known as the Daniel, Hankerson, Knox Building.

Bulletin of Loudoun County History 2023-2024 Edition 

The major topics this year include:

  1. Isaiah Allen’s Life After Escaping Slavery, by Paul McCray. One enslaved Loudoun County man began a journey on Christmas Eve, 1861, that would take him places he couldn't have imagined.
  2. The 1926 Dispute to Replace Lincoln High School, by Larry Roeder. A dispute between two villages revealed fierce political and religious differences at a time when the administration of public schools was changing. Yet there was also a determination to seek harmony.
  3. Flatwoods: A Black-Belt Study, by Mary A.E. Peniston, Loudoun's first Black supervisor of teachers. A reprint of her 1914 study of a remote Alabama community, plus additional biographical information and social commentary.
  4. Preliminary Research of the Digges' Valley Farm Ruins, by Kathleen Adams. A project of the Historical Archaeology and Digital History Courses at Northern Virginia Community College.
  5. The Brown Hyman Book, by Christine Allen. A collection of nearly lost hymns from the Depression era.

Bulletin of Loudoun County History: 2022/2023 Edition

The topics this year were:

  1. Christopher Perfect: From British Convict to American Patriot, by Angelica M. Stephens
  2. The Role of school Petitions During Segregation, by Dave Prebich and Larry Roeder
  3. Patrick Cavan: Missing Trustee fo the Town of Leesburg, by Stanley K. Contrades

Bulletin of Loudoun County History: 2021-2022 Edition

The topics this year were:

  1. The W&OD Railroad and its predecessors. by Paul McCray
  2. The Delegates of the 1883 Mass meeting in Leesburg, an effort by Blacks to assert their right to serve as jurors and election officials, by Donna Bohanon.
  3. The history of Islam in Loudoun County, complete with examples of local Islamic art, by Larry Roeder
  4. The importance of the horse and mule during the American Civil War, by Childs F. Burden.
  5. Saddlery in Loudoun, an essay on a network of largely unknown artisans in the county's horse industry, by Dorothy Lee, Proprietor of Journeymen Saddlers, Middleburg.
  6. History of Quilting in Loudoun County from 1830 to the present day, by Priscilla Godfrey,  Waterford Quilters Guild.
  7. Preservation of home archives by one of the county's best known experts. Laura E. Christiansen, now Chief Librarian, the Balch Library.

Bulletin of Loudoun County History: 2020 2021 Edition

 Topics Covered this year:

  1. The People Enslaved by President Monroe, by Lori Hinterleiter Kimball and Wynne C. Saffer.
  2. Loudoun Federalists, by Nancy Spannaus.
  3. Incident at Oak Haven Station, by  Larry Roeder.
  4. The County Poor House Farm of Loudoun, by Wynne C. Saffer
  5. The Struggle by Black teachers for Salary Equality, Suffrage in Loudoun , By Anthony Arciero.
  6. Loudoun Ranger Reunions., by Edward Spannaus

Bulletin of Loudoun County History: 2019 Edition

Topics Covered this Year:

  1. Carter's Goose Creek Tract,  by Wynne C. Saffer and Lori  Hinterleiter Kimble
  2. A Study in Civil Rights, By Donna Bohanon
  3. The Readadjusters, by Edward Spannaus
  4. The Readadjuster Movement, by Wynne Saffer
  5. County School Fair Movement, by Larry Roeder

 

The Bulletin of the Loudoun County Historical Society

On line version not available, but copies are available to read at the Balch Libary.

Topics Covered this year:

Leesburg, Capital of the United States, by Wynne C. Saffer

The Swann Family: Builders of Morven Park, by Aimee Robertson

Seasons in Gray, by David M. Frantum

Exeter Plantation During the Civil War:  Horatio Tundle's Southern Claims Commission Case File, by Taylor M. Chamberlin

Charles Binns of Loudoun County, by Steve Meserve

The Bulletin of the Historical Society of Loudoun County, Virginia,  1957-1976

A copy is availabel to read at the Balch Library in Leesburg.

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