The Waterford Book Nook
The Waterford Foundation has numerous publications relating to the history of Waterford
which is of interest to researchers, genealogists or students of history.
Waterford Foundation Publications
 The Burning Cow Question
Edited & Annotated by John M. Souders. Two decades of town government in Waterford
are distilled into this entertaining book, omitting much of the repetitive
bureaucratic prose of the minutes themselves.
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Crossing The Line by
Taylor M. Chamberlin and James D. Peshek. Gleaned from the pages of a Civil War
customs ledger, this book provides the first detailed account of the struggle of loyal
Unionists to reestablish their personal and commercial links to the North. More . . .
Made In Waterford
by W. Brown Morton III and Dr. Fred D. Johnson, Jr. This booklet accompanied a 1994
exhibition of the furniture of chair and cabinet makers John Mount, William T. Mount
and Lewis N. Hough, who worked in Waterford . . .
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Nineteenth Century Loudoun County,
Virginia, Chair Manufacturing is filled with photographs, drawings and
charts that illustrate the surprising diversity and undeniable skill of local chair
manufacturers. More . . .
A Rock in a Weary Land, A Shelter in a
Time of Storm by Bronwen C. Souders & John M. Souders. This book tells
the story of the African-American experience in Waterford, Virginia, from their
arrival in the mid-1700s to their gradual exodus in the latter half of the 20th
century. More . . .
To Talk Is Treason Edited
by John E. Divine, Bronwen C. Souders, & John M. Souders. This fascinating account
of Waterford's Quakers during the Civil War came from a box of old letters and
journals . . . SOLD OUT
The Waterford News
Introduced & Annotated by Taylor M. Chamberlin, Bronwen C. Souders & John M.
Souders. Collected here for the first time are all eight issues of the long-lost
Waterford News , an underground Union newspaper published by three Quaker
maidens in Confederate Virginia. More . . .
Where Did They Stand? By
Taylor M. Chamberlin. In the tumultuous early months of 1861, citizens of Loudoun
County, Virginia, faced a fateful choice. Should they join their fellow Southerners
who had already seceded from the United States, or remain loyal to the Union whose
capital lay barely 25 miles to the southeast? More . . .
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