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We would like to provide the residents of  Lovettsville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Lovettsville Home page. The Lovettsville Home page provides as much information as possible on Lovettsville. Knowing Lovettsville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lovettsville’s Home page, you will also find Lovettsville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Lovettsville has a population of 2447. 50% of Lovettsville’s inhabitants are Male, and 50 are female. 63.8% of Lovettsville is married and 81.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $387,410, and the average rent is $1,769. Household median income in Lovettsville is $124,667, and the individual median income is $57,702. Lovettsville’s Ethnic is the following: White(86.6%), Hispanic(17.9%), Black(6.3%), Multiple(3.4%), Asian(1.9%), Other(1.8%).


Following the 1722 Treaty of St. Albans which established the Blue Ridge Mountains as the buffer between Native Americans and white settlers, German immigrants began arriving in the northern Loudoun Valley to farm the rich topsoil. They established several villages, many constructed of log and wooden buildings, and began to expand their land holdings.


Lovettsville was then called "The German Settlement". In 1820 David Lovett subdivided his property into quarter-acre "city lots". As a result of the ensuing construction boom, the town was called "Newtown". In 1828, the town was again renamed, to "Lovettsville". In 1836 the Virginia General Assembly established Lovettsville as a town, but the town was not fully incorporated until 1876. During the Civil War, Lovettsville was an important transportation stop for Union troops crossing the Potomac River.


Lovettsville was among the few communities in Loudoun County to vote against secession.In 1940, Lovettsville was the site of a crash of a DC-3 airliner. It was the worst in US history at that time, killing 25 people, including U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen, and became known as the Lovettsville air disaster. The Lovettsville Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.In 2018, after the NHL's Washington Capitals advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in franchise history, the town's council voted to temporarily rename Lovettsville "Capitals-ville" for the duration of the finals.


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