Lovettsville

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Lovettsville est une municipalité américaine située dans le comté de Loudoun en Virginie.

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Lovettsville, Virginia

Lovettsville is a town in Loudoun County, located near the very northern tip of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. Settled primarily by German immigrants, the town was originally established in 1836. As of the 2020 census, Lovettsville had a population of 2,694.

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Lovettsville Historic District

Lovettsville Historic District is a national historic district located at Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Virginia. It contains 174 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in a primarily residential section of Lovettsville. Most contributing resources consist of residences and associated outbuildings dating from the early-19th to early-20th centuries. They are vernacular interpretations of a variety of popular architectural styles including Federal, Queen Anne, Italianate, Romanesque, and Bungalow. Notable resources include the Lovettsville Union Cemetery, First German Reformed Church site and cemetery, New Jerusalem Lutheran Church and cemetery, Union Cemetery, African-American Methodist Episcopal Church and cemetery, Presbyterian cemetery, Lovettsville Masonic Lodge, former Grubbs Store, former Red Men's Lodge, and Willard Hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

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Georges Mill, Virginia

Georges Mill is an unincorporated village in northern Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. The community takes its name from the mill that once operated there on Dutchman Creek to the north of Elvan. Georges Mill is located at the crossroads of Irish Corner Road and Georges Mill Road. Goats at the petting zoo at the Georges Mill Farm was the suspected vector of an E. coli outbreak. "Out of an abundance of caution," the farm stopped allowing people from petting baby goats.

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Elvan, Virginia

Elvan is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Originally known as "Jumbo", Elvan is located on Elvan Road off Mountain Road in northern Loudoun County.

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Lovettsville air disaster

On August 31, 1940, Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19, a new Douglas DC-3A, was flying from Washington, D.C. to Detroit with a stopover in Pittsburgh. While the aircraft was flying near Lovettsville, Virginia at 6,000 feet and approaching the West Virginia border, Flight 19 encountered an intense thunderstorm. Numerous witnesses reported seeing a large flash of lightning shortly before it nosed over and plunged to earth in an alfalfa field. With limited accident investigation tools at the time, it was at first believed that the most likely cause was the plane flying into windshear, but the Civil Aeronautics Board report concluded that the probable cause was a lightning strike. U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was among the 21 passengers and 4 crew members killed. Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice." At the time of the crash, the FBI was investigating Sen. Lundeen's ties to George Sylvester Viereck, a top German agent working in the U.S. to spread pro-Nazi and antisemitic propaganda. The crash occurred during a severe rainstorm, and recovery efforts were hindered by impassable flooded roads and poor communications: the crash cut the only telephone lines in the area. Wreckage was scattered over a broad area, and it is believed that all aircraft occupants died instantly on impact. At the time, the crash was the deadliest disaster in the history of U.S. commercial aviation. Flight 19 was under the command of Captain Lowell V. Scroggins with First Officer J. Paul Moore. The pilot and copilot had over eleven thousand and six thousand hours experience respectively, although only a few hundred of those hours were on DC-3s. The aircraft was carrying 21 revenue passengers, a single flight attendant, and a deadheading airline manager riding in the jump seat in the cockpit. The DC-3A was newly delivered from Douglas Aircraft on May 25, 1940, equipped with twin Curtiss-Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines. The CAB investigation of the accident was the first major investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

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Lovettsville est située dans la Loudoun Valley (en) à proximité de la frontière du Maryland. Elle est d'ailleurs plus proche historiquement du comté de Frederick (Maryland) que du reste du comté de Loudon. Selon le Bureau du recensement des États-Unis, la municipalité s'étend sur 0,88 mille carré (2,28 km2).

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D'abord appelée German Settlement, Lovettsville est officiellement fondée en 1820. La localité est principalement peuplée de colons germano-américains originaires de Pennsylvanie et du Maryland depuis le début du XVIIIe siècle. Elle devient une municipalité en 1842. Le centre historique de Lovettsville, peu modifié depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, est inscrit au Registre national des lieux historiques. Depuis les années 2000, la ville connaît une importante croissance notamment grâce à la revitalisation de son centre.

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Lors du recensement de 2010, Lovettsville compte 1 613 habitants. La zone desservie par son code postal compte environ 6 000 habitants de plus.

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Lovettsville, Virginia

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Lovettsville Historic District

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Georges Mill, Virginia

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Elvan, Virginia

Elvan is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Originally known as "Jumbo", Elvan is located on Elvan Road off Mountain Road in northern Loudoun County.

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Lovettsville air disaster

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