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Loudoun County Then and Now
In 2021 and 2022, Loudoun Museum created a series of videos exploring the history of Loudoun County through a photographic lens. These videos show change over time in several towns throughout the county by focusing on some of their most unique sites. (Photography by Sara Wolfley)
Leesburg
Purcellville
Ashburn
Hamilton
Waterford
Middleburg & Aldie
Lincoln
Yardley Taylor Interactive Map
Explore Yardley Taylor's 1853 map of Loudoun County at a detailed level. This story map shows elements of the original map up close, with context for how the map was originally created and used. If you look closely enough, you might even be able to find the land you live on today!
Library of Congress
Lucas-Heaton Letters and Story Map
In December of 1829, nine Lucases of Loudoun County left Northern Virginia for Hampton Roads, where they boarded a brig bound for the western coast of Africa. Two of the men, Mars and Jesse Lucas, had recently been emancipated by Albert and Townsend Heaton of Loudoun County. Over the next decade, the two sets of brothers corresponded about family back home in Loudoun and the challenges of life in Liberia. The Museum has a display of several of the letters in our main gallery.
A Story Map developed as a collaboration between Museum staff, volunteers, and staff from the Loudoun County office of Mapping and Geographical Information has been created for the letters and includes excerpts from the letters, the locations mentioned within them, and a little about the events that led the Lucas family and other emancipated people to move across the Atlantic for a new life.
Loudoun Cemeteries Story Map
This exploration of local burial grounds features information about specific cemeteries in Loudoun County, the stories of some of the individuals buried there, and descriptions of a few of the more unique tombstones and grave markers. Let this interactive map inspire you to get out and visit a few of these cemeteries in person.
Community COVID Memories
We all made adjustments and sacrifices as we learned to navigate our world amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Experiences were diverse and evolving for Loudouners. Whether you had your first taste of telecommuting, homeschooling, care-taking, or just finding creative ways to maintain social distancing guidelines AND your sanity, you lived through historic times.
Amidst all this change, Loudoun Museum documented and preserved some of your quarantine stories. These experiences—as digital documents, photographs, or physical objects—are evidence of our community’s resilience and creativity during tough times.
This community archive strategy allowed us to stay relevant and document first person accounts of historic events as they occurred. It also provided an opportunity for the public to curate their own narrative. The link below takes you to the website that showcases the experiences of Loudoun residents during the Pandemic, and to another site that gives some history on past pandemics.
https://bit.ly/CollectingCovidMemories