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Main Street 3
Virtual Walking Tour
The Mill
The mill contributed more
to Waterford's development and economy than any other structure.
The three-and-a-half-story plus cellar brick mill you see
today is the third and largest mill built on or near this
site. It appears to have been erected in 1818. Large extensions
were added years later for storage and to house saw and cider
mills. Milling finally ceased in 1939. The Waterford Foundation
ensured the survival of this vital link to village history
when it bought the building in 1944, using it as exhibit
space during the annual fair. In the late 1990s the Foundation
reinstalled roller mill machinery similar to that first placed
in the mill in the 1880s. |
Marshall Clagett House
This small
house was constructed circa 1760 at Corby Hall, the Hough
homestead about two miles north of Waterford. About 1870,
Marshall Claggett, an African American, bought the house,
dismantled the logs, and moved it to Waterford. The cement
block addition at the rear was built in the mid-20th century.
This dwelling exemplifies typical log house construction:
one-story, one room, V notches linking the logs, a stone
foundation and chimney. In 17th and 18th century Virginia,
more people lived in log houses than in any other type of
structure. Many had no windows-glass was prohibitively expensive, and the government
taxed each pane in a house. |
Wisteria Cottage
This small brick
house was probably constructed early in the 19th century.
During much of its history, it belonged to the Gover family,
prominent Quakers. They sold the house to Gover descendant
Wellman Chamberlin in the 1930s or 1940s. For half a century
it was the home of Mary Elizabeth Wallace (1919-1999), the
last member of Waterford's once-thriving black community. |
Hollingsworth-Lee House
The
land on which this two-story brick house sits was part of
the mill tract for many years. By 1827 Samuel Gover was living
in a brick dwelling here. Around the time of the Civil War,
Robert Hollingsworth (1814-1871), a Quaker schoolteacher
from Frederick County, Virginia, bought the house from the
Govers. During the war, Confederates seized Hollingsworth
and fellow townsman William Williams and marched them to
Richmond's Castle Thunder Prison, intending to trade them
for two Loudoun residents held by the North. The interior
floor plan of this dwelling is unusual: the door opens into
a passage that runs the depth of the house; a single room
is to the right of the passage. The frame addition at the
rear succeeded an earlier one in the 1950s or 1960s.
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