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tells the story of a village west of Washington, D.C. In 1733, Amos Janney purchased 400 acres along Catoctin Creek and built a mill for grinding flour and sawing wood. As fellow Quakers came to the area seeking fertile farmlands, a settlement grew up around "Janney's Mill." Renamed Waterford in the 1790s, the settlement prospered. Markets were expanded by the Chesapeake/Ohio Canal and Baltimore/Ohio Railroad. The area was devasted by the Civil War and never returned to its pre-war success. (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places)
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Main Street hill, circa 1862 |
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