Elvan is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Originally known as "Jumbo", Elvan is located on Elvan Road off Mountain Road (VA 690) in northern Loudoun County.
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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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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 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 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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Britain is an unincorporated community village in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States lying along Milltown Creek. It is located on the eastern flanks of Short Hill Mountain along Mountain Road at its junction with Britain Road.