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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ8_leesburg-passenger-station_Leesburg-VA.html
When the Alexandria, Loudoun, & Hampshire Railroad (later W&OD) arrived on May 17, 1860, Leesburg realized a dream. A local newspaper praised the railroad, which "throws us within an hour or two's ride of the cities of the seaboard, and opens up a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ6_leesburg-freight-station_Leesburg-VA.html
Leesburg's first railroad depot opened here in 1860 to accommodate passengers, mail, express packages, and freight. All but the freight operations were moved west to King Street in 1887 when the new passenger station opened. An industrial area kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ5_the-leesburg-lime-company_Leesburg-VA.html
The arrival of the railroad in the 1860s spawned new businesses. One such enterprise was the Leesburg Lime Company, which operated at the site where you are now located. In 1868 a local newspaper announced:
New Lime Kiln— Messrs. Orr & M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ4_electric-trains-on-the-w-od_Leesburg-VA.html
Electrification arrived in 1912, after the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the Southern Railway's Bluemont Branch were consolidated into the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new owners brought modern interurban trolley cars. Wire str…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ3_the-great-falls-line_Leesburg-VA.html
The Bluemont Branch of the Washington & Old Dominion was not the railroad's only line. The Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad arose in 1906 from the vision of two prominent men. Sen. Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia had prospered through coal, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO3_clarkes-gap_Leesburg-VA.html
At 582 feet, Clarkes Gap, up the hill to your left, was the highest point on the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad. The stone bridge dates from the 1870s, when the tracks were completed to Clarkes Gap. The station stood on the site where you are …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBY_leesburg_Leesburg-VA.html
"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…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3H_oatlands_Leesburg-VA.html
The Civil War arrived in Loudoun County on October 21, 1861, with the Battle of Ball's Bluff. As Confederate forces gathered to protect Leesburg, Elizabeth Grayson Carter, the widowed mistress of Oatlands, wrote in her journal on October 17, "Our …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26_1862-antietam-campaign_Leesburg-VA.html
Fresh from the victory at the Second Battle of ManassasGeneral Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crossed the Potomac River on September 1-6, 1862,to bring the Civil War to Northern soil and to recruit sympathetic Marylanders. Union Gen. Ge…