The Bulletin of the Historical Society of Loudoun County, Virginia has been owned by Diversity Fairs of Virginia (DFV) since 2018, and is now published as the Bulletin of Loudoun County History.
The 1957-1976 Editions are available for sale on Amazon. In 2021, all articles will be scanned and then posted on this website for general distribution.
Articles in the combined volume are:
Home Page of the Bulletin of Loudoun County History
Officers of the Society 1996-1997, 1998 | v |
Table of Illustrations | ix |
Preface | xi |
Introductions | |
Foreword | xv |
Introduction by Ambassador George C. McGhee. | xvii |
Introducing the Bulletin in 1958 | xix |
Loudoun County Pioneers | |
The First Churches in Loudoun County, by Nan Lin Kincaid | 3 |
A History of the Society of Friends in Loudoun, by Asa Moore Janney | 15 |
Early Loudoun Water Mills, by Helen Hirst Marsh | 29 |
Thomson Mason of Raspberry Plain, Letter of “A British American” Introduction by John G. Lewis | 35 |
Establishing the Town in Loudoun County, by Penelope M. Osburn | 71 |
Loudoun County Between the Wars | |
The Post Offices of Loudoun, by Andrew A. Rowberg and Marie C. Rowberg | 79 |
Thomas Jefferson and the Ketocton Baptist Association, by Unknown | 93 |
A Hometown newspaper: “The True American,” by Penelope M. Osburn | 97 |
Hometown Banking: The Loudoun Company, by Helen Hirst March | 111 |
Tales of Old Virginia, by Joseph V. Nichols | 117 |
Philip St. George Cooke of Loudoun, Commander of the Mormon Battalion, by Wilbur C. Hall | 121 |
Loudoun County and the Civil War | |
Economics of Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War, by Professor George G. Hall | 131 |
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Memories of Colonel E.V. White | 143 |
Centennial Ceremony Commemorating the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1961 | 157 |
The Loudoun Guards – A Muster Roll, Company C, 17th Regiment Va., Infantry, CSA | 181 |
The Skirmish at Mile Hill, by Col. A. B. Johnson, US Army, Retired | 187 |
“The Comanches” in Action. 35th Battalion, Va/. Cavalry, CSA, by John Divine. | 191 |
Passage of the Armies Through Loudoun: 1861-1865, by John Devine | 195 |
The Confederate Monument in Leesburg | 215 |
A Memory of John Devine | 221 |
Historic Properties in Loudoun County | |
Exeter Plantation: Its History and Architecture, by Penelope M. Osburn | 225 |
Coton Manor of the Ages, by John G. Lewis | |
Commentary | |
A Bequest from James Monroe, by Professor Edwin H. Cady | 269 |
Appendices | |
A Memory of Huntington Harris | 281 |
Officers, Directors and Members of the Society | 283 |
Post Offices boxes in Loudoun, 1960 | 295 |
Index of Names | 297 |
Index of Subjects | 321 |
Index of Localities | 332 |
Illustrations | |
Federal Troops at Edwards’ Ferry | 194 |
Confederate Monument in Leesburg | 219 |
John Devine | 221 |
Exeter Planation | 227-237 |
Coton Manor | 247-263 |
Portrait of James Monroe | 277 |
Huntington Harris | 281 |