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Leesburg 250Th Anniversary Lecture Series Speakers Suggest… Leesburg 250th Anniversary Lecture Series Speakers suggest… Balicki, Joseph, and Walton H., II Owen. Documentation of Eight Civil War Forts and Earthworks in the Vicinity of Leesburg, Virginia. Alexandria, VA: John Milner Associates, Inc, 2002. V REF 975.528 BAL. Cresswell, Nicholas. The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777. New York: L. MacVeagh, the Dial Press, 1924. V REF 921 CRESSWELL NICHOLAS. Elwood, William A., Mykola Kulish, Steven Anthony Jones, and Darryl Cox. The Road to Brown. San Francisco, Calif: California Newsreel [distributor], 1990. DVD 344.7307 ROA, AVAILABLE THROUGH LCPL. Hanna, William F. and Claude E. Petrone. Ground Penetrating Radar, Electromagnetic, and Magnetic Gradiometry Surveys at the Domestic Site, Black Cemetery, and Walled Cemetery, Historic Mount Zion "Old School" Baptist Church, Loudoun County, Virginia. [s.l.]: Petrone & Associates, c2001. V REF 929.50975528 HAN. Harwood, Herbert Hawley, Jr. Rails to the Blue Ridge: The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, 1847- 1968. Fairfax Station, Va: Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority, 2000. V REF 385.97 HAR. Heath, Barbara J. Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. V REF 975.5675 HEA. Hughes, Sarah S. Surveyors and Statesmen: Land Measuring in Colonial Virginia. Richmond, Va: Virginia Surveyors Foundation, 1979. V REF 526.92 HUG. Jabour, Anya. Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. Gender Relations in the American Experience. Baltimore, Md: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. V REF 973.5 JAB. Kennedy, John Pendleton. Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney-General of the United States. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1850. V REF 921 WIRT WILLIAM. Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage Books, 1977. V REF 344.730798 KLU. McNeil, Genna Rae. Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. V REF 921 HOUSTON CHARLES. Noel̈ Hume, Ivor. In Search of This & That: Tales from an Archaeologist's Quest: Selected Essays from the Colonial Williamsburg Journal. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1996. V REF 975.5101 NOE. Phillips, John T. The Historian's Guide to Loudoun County, Virginia. Leesburg, Va: Goose Creek Productions, 1996. V REF 975.528 PHI. Poland, Charles Preston. From Frontier to Suburbia. Marceline, Mo: Walsworth Pub. Co, 1976. V REF 975.528 POL. Reps, John W. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Williamsburg, Va., 1972. V REF 975.521 REP. Rust, William F. III. Chronology of Prehistoric Habitation Sites on the Potomac River in Loudoun County, Virginia, from the Countryside Planned Community to the Catoctin Creek/Potomac Confluence. Leesburg, VA: Loudoun Archaeology Center, 1985. V REF 917.3 RUS. Scheel, Eugene M. “Leesburg: Loudoun’s Courthouse Town of Nicholas Minor.” In Leesburg & the Old Carolina Road. Loudoun discovered: communities, corners & crossroads, v. 2. Leesburg, Va: Friends of the Thomas Balch Library, 2002. V REF 975.528 SCH V. 2. _____. "Loudoun's First Town, Leesburg, Marks 2½ Centuries." The Washington Post, January 20, 2008, sec. T, pg. 8, http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed 6 May 2008). _____. " Old Place Names Reveal Leesburg History and Lore." The Washington Post, May 18, 2008, sec. T, pg. 8, http://www.proquest.com/ (accessed 23 May 2008). _____. The Potomac River from Brunswick to Vandeventer's Island: & Environs of Sugarloaf, Poolesville, Leesburg, Waterford & the German Settlement. Waterford, Va: Scheel, 1996. 1 inch = .7 mile (approx.). Map Case: Drawer 4, Folder 3. Taylor, Yardley. “Map of Loudoun County, Virginia from Actual Surveys.” 1 inch = 1.5 mile (approx.). Philadelphia: Reynolds & Smith, 1853. Reprint edition, Lincoln, VA: A.M. and W.L. Janney, 1976. Map Case: Drawer 2, Folder 3. Williams, Ames W. The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. Arlington, Va: Arlington Historical Society, 1989. V REF 385 WIL. Williams, Harrison. Legends of Loudoun: An Account of the History and Homes of a Border County of Virginia's Northern Neck. Richmond, Va: Garrett and Massie, 1938. V REF 975.528 WIL. Wirt, William, and Peter Hoffman Cruse. The Letters of the British Spy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970. RARE BOOKS V REF 921 WIRT WILLIAM. Wirt, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry. New York: M'Elrath & Bangs, 1835. RARE BOOKS V REF 921 HENRY PATRICK. .
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