Love’s Road Chronology – Development, Financing, Construction

“In 1797, a group of 55 citizens petitioned Virginia’s General Assembly to enact a law that would establish a town ‘on the Lands of John Love in Prince William County on Broad Run, a Branch of the Occoquan river, near said Love’s Mill, agreeable to the Plan of a Town herewith presented and to be Read more about Love’s Road Chronology – Development, Financing, Construction[…]

Cerro Gordo at Buckland

This document published September 10th, 2017 focuses on one of Virginia’s oldest continuously inhabited sites Cerro Gordo, which contains thousands of years of history as described in the linked article by John T. Toler. Cerro Gordo at Buckland

Buckland Industries & Business-Love’s Mill, Love’s Store, Love’s Road

In 1797 by petition to the Virginia General Assembly, John Love laid out a grid of lots around the irregular cluster of earlier shops and outbuildings described in this document as “already built upwards of twenty good houses occupied by tradesmen and merchants; considerable manufactories of grain have been erected,” including a stone distillery on Read more about Buckland Industries & Business-Love’s Mill, Love’s Store, Love’s Road[…]