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Waterford was established around 1733 by Amos Janney, a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.Janney purchased 400 acres (1.6 km 2) on the south fork of Catoctin Creek and established a grist mill and saw mill in the area in the 1740s.
Location of Arlington County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.
The Quaker Hill Historic District encompasses the center a mainly residential village in northeastern Waterford, Connecticut.Running in a mostly linear fashion along Old Norwich Road between Connecticut Route 32 and Richard Grove Road, the area first grew as a settlement of religious non-conformists in the 17th century, developed in the 19th century as a small industrial village, and became ...
The Graniteville Historic District is a mainly residential historic district in Waterford, Connecticut, United States.It is ranged along Rope Ferry Road, near granite quarries that were once a major industry in the town.
Catoctin Creek is a 14.1-mile-long (22.7 km) [1] tributary of the Potomac River in Loudoun County, Virginia, with a watershed of 59,000 acres (240 km 2).Agricultural lands make up 67 percent and forests 30 percent of Catoctin Creek's watershed.
Taylorstown was transformed from a small settlement into a thriving agricultural community over about a hundred years. The greatest catalyst for growth was farming and milling (there were at least three mills in the area) and to some extent iron mining from the local Furnace Mountain, which attracted miners during the late 18th and early 19th century.
The Waterford property where the Seaside Sanatorium would stand was commissioned in 1930 by The State Tuberculosis Commission. The 28-acre property was purchased from the heirs of the Smith-Grimes estate. More land was purchased in 1936, bringing the property to its current boundaries, totaling 36 acres at a cost of $125,000.
The Fight at Waterford was a small skirmish during the American Civil War that took place in Waterford, Virginia on August 27, 1862 between the local partisan cavalry units of White's Rebels, fighting for the Confederates, and the Loudoun Rangers fighting for the Union. The Rebels surprised and routed the newly formed Loudoun Rangers in their ...