AMERICA’S ROUTES works to promote citizen valuing and consequent preservation of Loudoun’s rural and dirt road network. This pump-priming preservation grant is to assist with website redesign and mission refresh working with a mission and messaging expert. The grant will partially pay for a website technical work and for s social media relaunch. Relevant to which of our 4 standards: #3 [Publication or online posting of historical, architectural, or archaeological research of a particular structure, property, site, district, community, or transportation feature important to Loudoun’s historical landscape if the publication...
This well know 1910 landmark on the main street of Purcellville was originally an Episcopal Church. It’s unique architecture has been described as Norwegian Gothic. The lodge aims to work on the building envelope to further preserve the structure.
The purpose of this project is to celebrate the historic farms of western Loudoun that continue to keep their land in active agricultural use or have put the land in to conservation easement. While the goal ultimately will be for 30 markers at $2,500 each, this will use a phased approach, beginning with ten markers about the historic town of Hillsboro. These markers will each have a QR code linked to additional information (more than the marker contains) on the Hillsboro Preservation Foundation’s website.
Project to replace some of the windows.
Project: to help preserve its restoration and interpretation efforts of the Bond Street Tanyard meadow and its barn structure adjacent to the historic John Wesley Church and the Waterford Mill.
Project: Print an updated version of the Historic Loudoun Scavenger Hunt booklet to be distributed to students as part of VPHAA educatonal program with local schools as well as being placed in libraries and at historic sites.
Project: For use to seek National and Virginia Historic Register status for the village.
Project: Preservation and documentation of 3 significant outbuildings. Using photogrammetry to create rectified scaled images of each building’s exterior wall to be used to understand masonry construction of the walls.
Project: Engineering Study to determine the preservation needs for the 19th century clapboard Mount Pleasant Church at Scattersville.
Project: Further digitization of court records from medical register of Loudoun doctors from 1901 to 1980 and coroner’s records from 1757 to 1968.
