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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PQQ_john-w-mobberly_Purcellville-VA.html
During the war, this valley southeast of the Federal base at Harpers Ferry between the Blue Ridge and Short Hill was known as "Between the Hills." The much-feared Confederate partisan leader Pvt. ("Captain") John W. Mobberly roamed here from 1863 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUQ_white-pump-drovers-tavern_Purcellville-VA.html
The stone farmhouse just east on Colchester Road operated as a tavern in the late 1790s. By 1800, it was known as the White Pump Drovers Tavern. Drovers moved animals such as sheep, cattle, and hogs along roadways to markets. Colchester was the Fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSIS_battle-of-unison_Purcellville-VA.html
(Preface):After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia escaped to Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly urged Union Gen. George B. McClellan to pursue and attack. Following a plan that Lin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG5Q_purcellville-station_Purcellville-VA.html
The tracks are long gone, but Purcellville's train station still occupies the ground it has stood on since 1904. It replaced a depot built at about the same time that the railroad arrived in 1874 and accommodated passengers, mail, and freight.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG4D_beyond-purcellville_Purcellville-VA.html
The trail ends here but the story does not. The founders of the Alexandria, Loudoun, & Hampshire (later the W&OD) sought to rival the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for the coal of West Virginia and the trade of the Ohio Valley. By 1900 the railroad fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF6M_old-potts-graveyard_Purcellville-VA.html
David Potts, a quaker, established this cemetery from a portion of his farm. He migrated here from Philadelphia Co. Pa. and in 1746 leased 866 acres of land from Catesby Cocke which he later purchased. He was born about the year 1700 and died 1768…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPP_tracks-into-history_Purcellville-VA.html
The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The B&O was diverting farm produce from the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPO_electric-trains-on-the-w-od_Purcellville-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/HM9HS_ketoctin-church-short-hill_Purcellville-VA.html
Constituted on October 8, 1751Present Church Built 1854Placed By Ketoctin ChapterDaughter OfThe American Revolution
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6AN_this-is-the-birthplace-of-susan-koerner-wright_Hillsboro-VA.html
Hillsboro, Loudoun County, Virginia. This is the birthplace of Susan Koerner Wright, April 30, 1831-July 4, 1889, mother of Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane.
A notable woman who largely guided and wisely inspired her sons to…