A Village In Time

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A Village in Time 1660–1990–Discovering American History in a Small Virginia Quaker Village. Neil C. Hughes. ISBN 9780828326674 Paperback; ISBN 9780828326681 E-Book Neil has came upon American history on his own doorstep after a long career working in twenty-five countries as an international finance specialist with the World Bank. For the past 30 years, he has lived in an 1819 house in the National Historic Landmark village of Waterford, Virginia–a phenomenal old town 45 miles from Washington, D.C. in northern Loudoun County, miraculously preserved in time. A Village in Time, 1660-1990, grew out of his research into the individuals who built and lived in that very house and village. There, he came upon that historic persons, he met from Waterford, also knew somebody more famous out of doors the village. In 1744, John Hough, the grandfather of Samuel Hough, who later built his house, left Bucks County, Pennsylvania and settled in what would turn out to be the town of Waterford. As a senior surveyor for Lord Fairfax, John Hough befriended and mentored young surveyor George Washington, who then forged his military career in the French and Indian War, particularly in the battle of Braddock Heights about twenty miles from Waterford. Both Washington and Hough were visionaries, who became partners in making an attempt to develop water get admission to to the Mid-west through their Patowmack Canal Co. From the above introductory words, Neil gives an intelligent analysis on how the structure of the home changed in those centuries. More importantly, he reveals, in 32 flowing chapters, significant historical events affecting each facet of an evolving portrait of things Americana.

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