Main Street 5

Goodwin-Sappington House

From at least 1803-1805 David Goodwin had a shoemakers shop and dwelling here. His shoeshop was the structure to the far right and his dwelling was to the far left. The central building was an alley between the two, converted into more living space before 1815 by the Sappington family.

The Sugar Shack

This V-notched log home replaces two buildings that burned in 1965, when a resident lit a fire in his attic in a misguided attempt to keep his bee hives from freezing. The logs came from a building near Dulles Airport.

The house has since been covered with wood siding.

The Sally Nettle House

The telephone office incorporates an older dwelling once owned by Sally Nettle, whose husband William (1779-1856) was a builder and the first mayor of Waterford. Edward and Leroy Chamberlin purchased the property in the 1930s, removing the weatherboards and exposing the timber frame and brick nogging beneath. An adjoining store to the east was torn down after the phone company bought the property in the 1950s.

The Graham House

Leven Smallwood (c.1765-1812) built the right side three-bay section of this house shortly after his 1810 purchase of the lot. He built a one-and-a-half-story brick structure on a stone foundation. A one-story brick addition was later added to the left of the original structure. Quakers Isaac Walker (1781-1851) and Jacob Mendenhall (1788-1822) operated a dry goods store here as early as 1816. Walker purchased the property after it was auctioned in 1833. Robert Graham, a veteran of the Loudoun Rangers, bought the building in 1879 and used it for his carriage painting business. He removed the half-story of brick from the right side and added a full second story of German siding to the entire edifice. The frame second floor was originally accessible only via exterior stairs on the left end.

The Post Office

This circa 1880 building replaces an earlier brick one begun around 1812 that served first as a residence and later as a store. John Williams operated a store here for many years; in later years John B. Dutton (1816-1892), another Quaker, ran a store at this location. The present building originally served as a store before it was converted to use as a post office in 1897.

This is the third oldest in Loudoun after Leesburg in 1793 and Middleburg in 1797.

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Plaque showing Waterford Post Office postmasters and mistresses.

As early as 1809, Quaker Daniel Stone lived in the Hillside House on Bond Street and operated Waterford's first post office. The house remained in his family until at least 1875, when a map indicates his daughter Rachel Hollingsworth was living here. A one-and-a-half-story stone miller's house built shortly after Francis Hague's cottage stood adjacent to Hillside's east elevation until about 1920, when it was demolished to make room for a chicken yard.