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Hamilton, VA was formally known as
Harmony. The settling of Loudoun area began between
1725 and 1730, while it was still owned by Lord Fairfax. Permanent
settlers came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. During the same
period, settlers from eastern Virginia of English Cavalier stock came to
lower Loudoun and established large tobacco plantations. During
the 1720s, a number of Quakers, Germans, Irish and Scots-Irish settled
west of the Catoctin mountains. Quakers formed the settlements of
Waterford, Goose Creek (now Lincoln), Harmony (now Hamilton) and Union
(now Unison).
From 1745 to 1760, Germans from Pennsylvania and Maryland formed the
settlement at Lovettsville. After General Braddock's defeat by the French
at Fort Duquesne in 1755, refugees from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
settled in the western part of Loudoun County, south of Short Hill.
Catoctin Church became the center of that settlement.
Today, Hamilton is know for its unique Victorian homes. |
