Waterford's Medieval Museum

Waterford's Medieval Museum is a tribute to life in the city during that period. Why not come and experience the wonder of our medieval city. A team actors playing different characters will bring to life Waterford’s fascinating history in these ...

Cohoes - Waterford Bridge

Designed and Built in 1932 by the

State of New York

Department of Public Works

Frederick Stuart Greene, Superintendent

T.F Farrell - Chief Engineer

H.O Scheermerhorn - Asst. Chief Engineer

R. B. Smith - Resident Eng

Bates and Rogers Construction Company

Contractors Chicago, Ill.

Marker is on Saratoga Street ...

Waterford - An Old Mill Town

Amos Janney, a Pennsylvania Quaker, settled on the south fork of Catoctin Creek around 1733. Other Quakers soon followed drawn by the fertile land. Most were grain farmers, making a mill an early priority. By the early 1740s, Janney had ...

The Waterford Mill

Amos Janney's enterprising son Mahlon inherited the first mill in 1747 and soon improved it. By 1762 he had built a new, larger mill of of stone and wood on this site. The brick structure here today replaced Mahlon's mill ...

Waterford Baptist Church

Erected 1853

At dawn on August 27, 1862, Captain E.V. White's 60-man company, nucleus of the 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, attacked 28 men of Captain S.C. Means' Company of Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers (Union) encamped here in this church. After three ...

Waterford

Unionist Stronghold

Historically Quaker and abolitionist Waterford decisively split with Loudoun County's pro-Confederate majority and rejected secession (220 votes to 31) in Virginia's May 1861 referendum. Many residents fled to Maryland as Southern troops occupied the town and its Quaker meeting ...

Waterford Station

Built in 1896 as a combination passenger station and freight house. Located on the 1835 Rensselaer & Saratoga railroad line, later a branch of the Delaware & Hudson.

Riverspark

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street (U.S. 4) and Columbia ...