Neersville is an unincorporated community in northwestern Loudoun County, Virginia, USA. In Law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any Municipality. Loudoun County (ˈlaʊdən "LOUD-un" is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It is located in the Between the Hills area of the Loudoun Valley on Harpers Ferry Road (Virginia Secondary Route 671) at the foot of Short Hill Mountain. Between the Hills is a sub-valley of the greater Loudoun Valley in Loudoun County Virginia. The Loudoun Valley is a small but historically significant Valley located in Loudoun County in northwestern Virginia in the United States Short Hill Mountain is a Mountain Ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Loudoun County, Virginia. It is notable for being the birthplace of Confederate guerilla John Mobberly. The War Department was established by the Confederate Congress in an act on February 21, 1861. Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc John W Mobberly, also known as John Mobley or Morbly ( June 1, 1844 &ndash April 5, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla
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History
Neersville derives its name from the Near brothers, Conrad and William, who were the first to lease and later own the land around the present village. Their land deeds began in the year 1786. Year 1786 ( MDCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The village began to coalesce around the dependencies of the Near farms in 1834 when the Lutheran Church was given a half acre on which they constructed St. Year 1834 ( MDCCCXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther Paul's Church. Within five years, the post office established a branch in the village which they christened Neersville and, with it, the "Capitol City" of Between the Hills was born.
The village continued to prosper in the antebellum years, boasting two mills, a saw and grist, by 1850. For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Unfortunately because of the limited flow of Piney Run, only one could operate at a time. The village suffered some during the Civil War, mostly by the burning of the bridge across the Potomac River ,which kept the isolated village connected to the Harpers Ferry and the outside world via the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid- Atlantic coast of the United States. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( B&O) was one of the Oldest railroads in the United States and the first Common carrier railroad The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal, and occasionally referred to as the " Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1836 until 1924 parallel Though the village was occupied by both armies during the war, no real fighting took place there.
Following the conflict, the village began to prosper once again, especially with the opening of Sagle Road, which cut between from the Harpers Ferry Road at the village to the Charles Town Pike (present day Rt. 9) just east of Keyes Gap and the opening of the Nathaniel Prince Road which lead east from the village across the Short Hill, connecting the village to Lovettsville. Keyes Gap or Keye's Gap is a Wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Loudoun County Virginia and Jefferson County West Lovettsville is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. By 1872 the village even boasted a school. The 20th Century was not so kind to Neersville. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The population began to dwindle and the school closed in 1930, the general store closed in 1956 and by 1970 even St. Pauls had closed its doors. Furthermore Nathaniel Prince Road was not incorporated into the county road system and thus never graded and maintained for automobile use, thus cutting off the village from Lovettsville.
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References
- Scheel, Eugene M. , Loudoun Discovered: Communities and Crossroads Volume 5, Waterford, The German Settlement and Between the Hills. The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg Virginia, 2002.
External links
- Neersville, Virginia is at coordinates Coordinates:
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