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Early Methodism in Leesburg. On this site, deeded in 1766, stood the old Methodist meeting house completed about 1770. Here in 1778 was held the sixth conference of American Methodism and the first in Virginia. In this cemetery in 1786 was buried …
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"Leesburg! Paradise of the youthful warrior! Land of excellent edibles and beautiful maidens!" — so wrote a Confederate artilleryman in late 1861. A year later, a northern correspondent found Leesburg a weary town full of battle-scarred buil…
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One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766. In 1778, the Sixth American Conference of Methodists met there, the first such…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBC_balls-bluff-masked-battery_Leesburg-VA.html
Two hundred yards to your right are the remains of a small earthwork that may have been part of a masked (concealed) battery which played an important role in the Battle of Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861. The battery commanded the road from Edwa…
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Nearby is the likely site of the Confederate "masked battery" (concealed artillery) that was an object of Federal concern early in the Civil War. On 21 Oct. 1861, elements of the 13th Mississippi infantry near there engaged 35 horsemen of the 3rd …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4V_1862-antietam-campaign_Leesburg-VA.html
Fresh from victory at the Second Battle of Manassas, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 4-6, 1862, to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. George…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4T_mile-hill_Leesburg-VA.html
On September 1, 1862, Col. Thomas Munford, commander of the Confederate 2nd Virginia Cavalry (163 men), was ordered to Leesburg to destroy a body of Union Cavalry—the locally raised Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers—who were harassi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Q_morven-park_Leesburg-VA.html
Morven Park was the home of Westmoreland Davis, who as governor of Virginia (1918-1922) created the executive budget system that concentrated state budgeting authority in the governor's hands. Davis bought Morven Park in 1903 and transformed it in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4P_goose-creek-chapel_Leesburg-VA.html
A short distance West is the site of the "Chapel Above Goose Creek", built by the vestry of Truro Parish in 1736. Augustine Washington, father of George Washington, was a member of the vestry at the time. This was the first church on the soil of L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3I_oatlands_Leesburg-VA.html
George Carter, a great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter, began this monumental mansion on his 3,408-acre estate in 1804 and embellished it over two decades. In 1827, he graced the fa?ade with fluted Corinthian columns, endowing the Federal-style h…