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NOVA History Remembered
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2020
NOVA History Remembered is my way of sharing some of the fascinating stories that I've learned about Northern Virginia over the years of living and working in the area. I worked for 46 years in local and regional parks, each with its own history tied to the way we see Northern Virginia today.
The Station - A Ticket to the Past, Purcellville Virginia
In 1991, AP History students at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville, Virginia, created a documentary about the town's train station and the history of the W&OD Railroad. This fascinating look at Purcellville's past includes many interviews with older residents who used the railroad shared their memories.
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Strike on the Washington & Old Dominion Railway1916...Union Action Gains National Attention
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In 1916, the workers of the Washington & Old Dominion Railway organized and joined a union seeking better pay and working conditions. Their railway strike and subsequent troubles made national news bringing famous figures from the labor movement to the side of the workers. This video tells that story and how the people of Washington D.C. and the Virginia suburbs of Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfa...
Evans Autorailer and The Arlington & Fairfax Auto Railroad
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The Evans Autorailer was to be the next generation of trolleys....one which could ride on train tracks or city streets equally well. The Evans Company choose the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Fairfax to showcase their cars using an electric trolley line desperately in need of a makeover.
W&OD Railroad Film 1939
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In 1939, a young railroad fan and photographer named Robert S. Crockett used his 8mm camera to film the Rosslyn train yard of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad in Rosslyn Virginia and west through Northern Virginia. He also rode an electric passenger car and filmed points along the way including stations and bridges as far as Difficult Run west of Vienna. You can see from the shots he took...
Women of the Confederacy in Loudoun County, Virginia
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During the Civil War, women were often just as passionate about their cause as the men. In 1863, four Loudoun County women in the Confederate State of Virginia, made a bold decision to travel past Union lines into Maryland to bring supplies back to partisan Confederate cavalry units operating in Northern Virginia.
Three Quaker Women in Confederate Virginia
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During the Civil War, women were often just as passionate about their cause as the men. In Waterford, Virginia….in the middle of Loudoun County in the Confederate State of Virginia, three young Quaker women decided to publish a pro-Union newspaper. They did this with wit, sarcasm and a patriotic flair to give aid to the United States.
Melvin Partlow Talks About Riding the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Cars in Ashburn
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Lifelong Ashburn resident Melvin Partlow talks about riding the W&OD Railroad train to Leesburg in this short clip taken from the documentary From Alexandria to the Blue Ridge from NOVA Parks.
The End of the W&OD Railroad
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The early 1950’s saw a decline in business for Northern Virginia’s Washington & Old Dominion Railroad but in a few years, a new opportunity arose which might have kept the W&OD running into the 21st century. Learn more about the last 20 years of the rail line and what came next.
Downtown Purcellville 1962
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This short video clip of the Town of Purcellville in Virginia came from film footage made by Hugh Grubb in 1962 as he was recording the Purcellville water line installation and the town reservoir. Not much has changed downtown except for the signs on buildings and the vintage of the motor vehicles.
Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the W&OD Railway
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In the early 1900's, big changes came to the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad. Entrepreneurs who had built the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railway took over the rail line from Alexandria to Bluemont and began a program of modernizing the line which the Southern Railway had neglected to do. But along with the new technology and amenities came new problems which kept getting in the way of succes...
Camp Alger: A City of Soldiers in Fairfax Virginia
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In 1898 the United States was about to go to war with Spain over the mysterious sinking of The Maine in Havana harbor and needed to begin training tens of thousands of new soldiers. The Army established a camp in the Dunn Loring area of Fairfax County Virginia and quickly began bringing in equipment, supplies and freshly recruited soldiers. Over four months, nearly 30,000 men were brought to Fa...
The W&OD Railroad: After the Civil War
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After the Civil War, the railroad which was to become the Washington & Old Dominion faced many challenges to start running passenger and freight trains again. The line had only reached the town of Leesburg before the war but money was tight postwar and it took two years to get back open to that town. Progressing beyond Leesburg would take even longer and much of the western part of Northern Vir...
The W&OD Railroad Begins
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The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad had a long a rich history in Northern Virginia. The trains ran on the W&OD for 108 years from Alexandria and Arlington through the Towns of Vienna and Herndon and out to Leesburg, Purcellville and Bluemont in Loudoun County. Using steam engines then electric trains and finally powerful diesel equipment, the rail line saw many changes over it's life. This s...
Capital Transit Trolleys in Washington D.C., 1939
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In 1939, Robert Crockett combined his love of railroads with his hobby of photography and film to record footage of several local railroads and trolley lines. This video has several minutes of Capital Transit trolleys operating through Washington D.C. Capital Transit would pick up Virginia passengers in Arlington in the Rosslyn area and take them into the city, helping commuters get to work fro...
I'm proud of my ancestor's peaceful way of life and acceptance of the views of others. They were in Mount Jackson until they were forced north by the confoundents.
This was incredibly interesting and answered a lot of my questions that I wondered over the years. Looking forward to checking out your other videos since I am a nova native.
They should have kept it open and it couldve become metro lol
They should have kept it open
There was the stop at sunset hills in Reston where the old Virginia gentleman distillery was. Would love to see old pictures of that.
Thank you for these videos. As a young historian raised in the area, learning this stuff first hand is amazing. Thank you for your work!
I miss old NoVA so much. Now it is commercialized, all bits of life there are commodofied and theres not much you can do anymore without alot of money. Even the majority of the nature is destroyed and uprooted so you cant enjoy that amymore, just go places to spend money. Its made me quite bitter losing my home.
I'm a nursing assistant. One of my residents used to operate the trolleys and streetcars so I had to check out the video. Really insightful and great video. Thanks for this
Really interesting. Do you know where I could find video or old pictures of the Bluemont end of the line? Thanks
Hey Paul, come on man we need some more great history content! Make more content.....
What is said at the 5:38 mark about elimination of [side pipe on} trolley cars?
Side aisle cars required conductors to hang off the side resulting in many injuries and deaths.
Awesome job sir! Thanks you!
Sound is messed up...
Too bad they shut down when they did. If they could've seen what was coming in terms of the buildup in NOVA, they'd be around. They would've had plenty of business by going back into passenger service in addition to freight. VRE, and some parts of Metro probably would never have existed, they might have been the commuter service today that those ones provide.
I don't think they'd still be around. The highway system was expanding rapidly, which diminished their business, though it did give them a temporary source of traffic. First, their usual freight shippers (most of which were rooted in the farming business), started going out of business as the area became built up. Second, railroads need large freight shippers to keep them profitable. Personally, I just don't see those shippers around the NOVA area. I believe the line was considered for a light rail line, but that never materialized.
@@jml8975 You're thinking in terms of a freight shipper business, that's where I disagree. Passenger service is king for the rails around here and they could've simply adapted. (plenty of federal and state money to do so) And there are still shippers in this area that's why NS and CSX still have local pickups here. But, if they had the passengers service that VRE and parts of Metro run instead of them, they'd be around.
LOVED it and learned a lot about my town.
Very interesting!!
This is fantastic!
Nice job ladies!!!
& i discovered this trail 2 days ago whilst here in Ashburn & its like the most beautiful thing here.
Funny how this channel and history remembered both have exactly the same amount of subscribers
There was an interurban railway from Washington, D.C. to Kensington, Maryland which closed in the 1930s...this according to my grandparents who moved to Kensington in 1940. It is not to be confused with the rail lines which presently connect Kensington and Washington now. My impression was that it ran along Connecticut Ave. to where there is a triangular split and a stoplight now....forget the name of that intersection. You can ask if interested and I will look on the map.
What a great video. Learned a lot from watching it!
It’s a shame this service isn’t still around. It would be very useful now with all the congestion
wrong. point A to ONLY point B is worthless. that is why it died. metro loses Metro, loses $2M a day
Mr. Partlow is sooo sweet
Between frames 42 and 54, might this be a view of the south side of the former War Department Head-Quarters, the fronting of which was on 17th Street, across from the Winder building (as viewed on the left in this image)?
This is important Washington, DC/ Northern Virginia transportation history. It should be part of the George Mason University Transportation Policy Operations and Logistics MA degree program!
The Dupont Circle tunnel was opened in 1949.
As a local of NoVa, i always enjoy watching your videos as they are informative and interesting. If I may request a video idea, you should make a program explaining the railroad industry in Rosslyn including the W&OD, A&F and predecessors, and the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Rosslyn Connecting Railroad.
The Judge was prophetic. If they would of kept the railroad running Metro wouldnt of been necessary in Northern Virginia. W&OD could of become Metro.
Exactly
That was fantastic. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks to the lies of these women, many Americans live with a twisted history of the civil war.
Glad the trains are gone. What a nightmare they would be today! Besides the bike/hike trail is a beautiful resource.
I can so remember that part of town during that time...seeing the old Western Auto sign brings back a lot of memories! You could get anything at the Western Auto!
Like spring steel " curb feelers" mud flaps for your car with reflectors that resembled cut emeralds. Steering wheel knows with a photo of scanty clad damsel on top
One guy was coping a feel. 😂
The hand is from the woman standing behind Mrs. White.
As Wikipedia notes: Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format. The standard 8 mm (also known as regular 8) film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released to the market in 1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16 mm.
Great stuff!
Great stuff!
Great story I had not known of.
Excellent job telling the interesting story. Lots of NOVA Parks properties are part of this story.
I sure like the titty hold that dude has on someone else's wife lol. That is not often you see that in a antebellam photo
Note: This photo of the four women with Col. White was lost to history until the 1990's. Elizabeth Cole of Leesburg called the W&OD Trail office to say she had some photos and artifacts from her Grandfather-in-Law who was the railroad stationmaster in Leesburg from 1867 to 1918 and she wanted to donate them to the railroad collection. She also pulled out a photo that she thought was Mosby. The trail staff was also in charge of Ball's Bluff and one staff member who had Civil War expertise recognized Elijah White. No one we spoke with was familiar with this image, including Col. White's descendants still living in Leesburg. But we theorized that as stationmaster, Charles Albert English would have known and interacted with Col. White. The photo was a reproduction and might have been handed out to friends of the family. Further research by the staff member found the arrest records and Confederate Veteran article detailing the arrest of the four women. That led to us guessing the identities of the women in the photo and that it may have been produced to honor them.
There is very little. Mrs White is mentioned mostly in histories about her husband's activities during the war. There's a bit more detail in a biography written about Colonel White and I could send you a link to that story. I also have a digital copy of the Confederate veteran article written by Anna Hempstone. Otherwise the only other mentions were the arrest reports from the Civil War records. Email me at novahistoryremembered@gmail.com for the links.
Thank you for the post. Is there any written material on these women?
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I remember the W&OD very well. I lived near the Carlyn Springs crossing when the trains still ran.
My grandfather worked for the WOD Railroads
What was your grandfather's name? When did he work the railroad?
His name was David Kehr. He worked there sometime between the 50's or 60's.
@@snapsnapjackson7335 Is Barbara Kehr related to David? She and 2 family members came to a reunion I hosted in the early 1990's for railroad employees and relations of theirs.
Yes that is his wife. Will you have another one in the future?
@@snapsnapjackson7335 I don't think we'll be able to do that. I was the manager of the W&OD Trail at the time and had met many of those folks individually. I thought it would be a good idea to get them back together and they would have a chance to talk and reminisce. I did recently find a video that we made of that day with individual people talking about the railroad and the employees sharing stories in a round table. I'm going to edit that and post it on TH-cam so look for that in the near future.
good job. audio is much better
Thanks, I was new at editing video and have learned alot!
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Almost like watching Tracks Ahead again