Second Street . Founded in 1867 and known as Colored School A , Jefferson District , the school was built by and served the local Black community . The school operated until 1957 when Waterford ’ s Black students were bussed to Frederick Douglass School in Leesburg before Loudoun County Public Schools were fully integrated in 1968 . With the help of many former students and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the Second Street School Living History Program brings fourth graders to the school to experience a day in the life of an actual student who originally attended the school in 1880 . Modern day students are provided with a biography of a student who attended the school in 1880 and reenact a typical school day . The program provides students with an experience of the daily life of a Black student in Virginia during Reconstruction .
In the Waterford of today , you can walk its streets and step back in time . You will find a village reminiscent of what any smalltime American rural village might have been like in the early days of our country .
For more information on planning your visit to Waterford , visit : waterfordfoundation . org
Margaret Good wore many hats as a volunteer with the Waterford Foundation before assuming the role of its Director of Preservation for many years . She retired in 2019 and continues her preservation efforts on the boards of the Loudoun Preservation Society and the Heritage Commission while working closely with the Loudoun Historic Village Alliance .
Lucketts : Preserving the past together
By Martha Polkey
Lucketts village is at a crossroads — and not just of two roads carved by a history of travel and commerce dating back to early indigenous tribes . It is at a crossroads between its history as a cherished social and community hub for the area ’ s rural residents — and the ever-present pressure for new development .
Lucketts is the easternmost of Loudoun ’ s rural historic villages , in the center of the Catoctin Rural Historic District , one of the state ’ s largest rural historic districts . Five historic properties and a Civil War battlefield within it are on the National Register of Historic Places , with many more structures listed on the Virginia Register . It straddles the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Scenic Byway ( U . S . Route 15 ), which extends from the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to Thomas Jefferson ’ s Monticello in Virginia .
A 2014 architectural survey prepared for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources described the village as “ a good example of a crossroads community that prospered during the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century . The buildings in the district include fine examples of vernacular building forms and Queen Anne , Craftsman , and Shingle architectural styles .”
That could sound a bit dry if you are not an enthusiast of historic places great and small . As far as we know , Washington did not sleep here . But Lucketts does have links to celebrities ! ( Read on .)
Current residents would argue with the statement that the village ’ s prosperous period ended in
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