DATE: 02012024; Hoysville Road is the old road heading into the German settled area northwest of Taylorstown. Old houses here, whatever their modern c
DATE: 02012024; Hoysville Road is the old road heading into the German settled area northwest of Taylorstown. Old houses here, whatever their modern cladding, are invariably log beneath the surface. These were largely Lutheran settlers arriving in the mid-18th century in a second wave of German settlement in Loudoun before the Revolution. Patriotic in the American Revolution— many of them fought in Washington’s Army, especially Daniel Morgan’s Riflemen—they were not so interested in fighting for the Confederacy come 1861. (Photo by Douglas Graham)
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