Category: LSP Seminars

Coming Soon: Walk and Learn Lectures!

Lectures Introducing a new spin on the Lunch and Learn series…Walk and Learn!

This fall, PHW has lined up two on site visits for a more hands-on learning experience. First, on Saturday, October 22, Jim Riley will lead a Saturday tour of the area’s oldest Quaker Meeting House. Learn the background on the Quakers and the history of the Hopewell Meeting house site. Weather permitting, the tour will include an outdoor component. The event is expected to last 1 to 1.5 hours. Water will be available.

Meet at Hopewell Meeting House, 604 Hopewell Road, Clear Brook, VA at 11 AM. The event is free and open to the public.

Second, Norman Baker of the French and Indian War Foundation will lead a tour of the site of Winchester’s Fort Loudoun on Thursday, November 10 at noon, weather permitting. The walking tour of the area once covered by the fort will last one hour, with time after for questions for those who can stay longer. On-street parking is limited, but parking is available at the nearby Loudoun Street Autopark.

Meet at noon at 419 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP your attendance for this tour by November 3 to PHW at 540-667-3577 or phwinc.org@gmail.com.

Dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes for both tours. For questions and RSVPs, please call 540-667-3577 or email phwinc.org@gmail.com.

Friday Photos: A Loudoun Street Miscellany

Happy Friday! First, thank you to those who have dropped off some plastic shopping bags for the Bough and Dough Shop. Please keep them coming! We will try to collect as many as we can before December, and any that are not used this year will be saved for future events.

Call for SponsorsSecond, this is a friendly reminder that we are about one month out from the deadline for Holiday House Tour advertising sponsors in our program booklet. This year, we are extremely grateful to have a team of business majors from Shenandoah University helping us make contact with sponsors as part of their classwork. If you are contacted by students for advertising opportunities, please know they are doing it with the blessing of PHW, and if any questions arise, we are happy to talk to you here at the PHW office.

Third, for those anxiously awaiting some word on the fall Lunch and Learn lectures, save the dates of October 22 and November 3. We are working on a special Saturday site visit to Hopewell Meeting House and a regular lunchtime program on log building maintenance, with two additional program dates pending.

Fourth, on to the photos! This week, PHW added about 50 images to the Flickr account, the majority of which are on Loudoun Street – North, South, and the Walking Mall. Of particular interest may be some photos that fell out of the Red Lion Tavern informational files. As you may know, there was previously a marble yard and small wooden shop building on Cork Street operated by the owners of the Red Lion Tavern. While we have photographic documentation of the Valley Marble Works/Haines’ Memorials building before it was demolished, Ben Ritter found a receipt from 1857 with a drawing the the building and donated two photos of it to PHW in 1995.
Valley Marble Works Receipt
Catch all the new images at the top of the Flickr photostream.

Around the Internet: Email, Lunch and Learn Lecture, Never Built Winchester

Around the Internet First, a reminder: The PHW email is changing! If you have not already, be sure to update us in your address books to phwinc.org@gmail.com. We may be able to access the Verizon email for just a week or so longer.

Next, we have a much-delayed Lunch and Learn lecture video to share with you. The timeliness of the presentation may have passed, but we wanted to provide as best a record of the event as we could. The presentation covers Tim Youman’s October 22, 2015 two-part lecture on “Expansion of the Winchester National Register Historic District” and “National Avenue Corridor Enhancement District.” The Historic District expansion portion is at the beginning of the presentation. If you prefer to skip ahead to the National Avenue Corridor Enhancement District portion of the talk, that starts at approximately the 31 minute mark. Listen to the video below or directly on YouTube.

Last for this week, an interesting counterpoint to our Vanished Winchester series – “Never Built Winchester.” Many people are taken with the map hanging above the fireplace in Sandra Bosley’s office at the Hexagon House. The map, donated to us by Lee Taylor, shows planned improvements to Winchester as part of Judge Handley’s efforts to better the town. The developments never materialized, but it is fascinating to see how the town could have grown. If you’ve wanted to look at this map at your own leisure, the Archives at the Library of Virginia featured the map at their blog, Out of the Box.

The Library of Virginia notes only one building from the project was completed – Hotel Winchester as per the map, Winchester Inn as it was more commonly called. As many of you know from our work on Vanished Winchester, the Inn was demolished about 1919 and the spacious property subdivided into a housing development. For a brief history of the Winchester Inn and its relationship to Winchester’s railroads, watch the clip on YouTube from about 3:43 to 6:30 in Sandra Bosley’s presentation “Images and History of Architecture and Industry Along Winchester’s Railroads.”

Winchester Inn 1904

Lunch and Learn Lecture “The Streets of Winchester” on YouTube

Join Tim Youmans, Winchester Planning Director and amateur local historian, for a podcast-style presentation on the research that he has undertaken to document the origin and significance of all of the named streets and alleys, both public and private, within the current 9.3 square-mile area of the City of Winchester. The inventory includes over 515 current and former street and alley names. Some of the oldest street names date back to the mid 1700s while others are just now under construction within new developments. Watch the video below or at YouTube.

View a condensed version of the slides used in this presentation at the city’s website.

Opening and closing music:
George Street Shuffle
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Friendly Reminder: Two PHW Events Coming Soon!

PHW’s 52nd Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, June 12, 2016

Time: 2-5 p.m.

Place: The Hexagon House, 530 Amherst Street, Winchester, VA

Cost: Free for PHW members and invited guests. Voting at the business meeting is restricted to dues-paying PHW members.

Activities: The annual business meeting includes the election of board members and presentation of the 2016 PHW Preservation Awards. Following the business meeting, which is expected to last about one hour, we will enjoy a light reception, homebrew beers, and (weather permitting) lawn games. The Hexagon House will be open for guided and self-guided tours (including the second story). For something a little more relaxing, you may sit down for a few minutes and color a house.

Lunch and Learn Lecture “The Origin of Winchester Street Names” presented by Timothy Youmans, Director of Planning for Winchester City

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016

Time: Noon-1 p.m.

Place: OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA

Cost: Free and open to the public

Lunch: Bring your own lunch

Parking is limited and on-street parking is metered; we recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark, across the street from OakCrest.

We hope to see you at one or both events!

Mark Your Calendars for Two PHW Events in June

PHWAs you may know, June is the Annual Meeting month at PHW. We mark the start of our 52nd year at the Hexagon House, 530 Amherst Street, on Sunday, June 12. The annual business meeting including election of board members and presentation of the 2016 PHW Preservation Awards begins at 2 PM. Following the business meeting, we will enjoy a light reception, homebrew brews, and (weather permitting) lawn games. This event is free to attend, but voting at the business meeting is restricted to dues-paying PHW members.

Date: Sunday, June 12, 2016
Time: 2-5 p.m.
Place: The Hexagon House, 530 Amherst Street, Winchester, VA
Cost: Free for PHW members and invited guests

Shortly thereafter, we will enjoy our last “spring” Lunch and Learn Lecture of 2016 with “The Origin of Winchester Street Names” presented by Timothy Youmans, Director of Planning for Winchester City.

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Place: OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA
Cost: Free and open to the public
Lunch: Bring your own lunch

Parking is limited and on-street parking is metered; we recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark, across the street from OakCrest.

We hope to see you at one or both events!

“Winchester – A Frontier Town…With a Dash of the Wild West” Presentation on YouTube

John Flood John Flood’s PHW Lunch and Learn Lecture from April 7 is now available to watch on YouTube. This recording contains most of the live presentation as it was performed last Thursday with two minor exceptions. We have removed the showing of Patsy Cline’s live “San Antonio Rose” video – John’s commentary during the showing was inaudible. To get the full experience, you may wish to pause our presentation at the Pasty Cline Intermission and watch the video at https://youtu.be/lk2AyjY7d1s. There was also an audience question taken during the switch between laptops for the Pasty Cline video. That question was moved to the Q&A session at the end of the video.

John Flood mentioned a number of websites during his presentation. The URLs are available in the presentation, but for ease of access we have replicated them here:
John Flood’s Facebook
Big Legends Facebook
Big Legends website
Focus on the Valley Photography Facebook
Focus on the Valley Photography website
Winchester Frontier Days Facebook
Wild West Magazine
Celebrating Patsy Cline
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society (including the Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives at Handley Library)

We also utilized royalty-free music in preparing this video. If you are ever in need of music for a project, consider visiting incompetech.com to search the extensive selection of music in all manner of styles and genres. For this video specifically, we utilized:

Opening Jingle – Cowboy Sting Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Presentation Beginning Cue – Work is Work Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Patsy Cline Intermission – Drankin Song Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Credits Roll – Olde Timey Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Reminder: Winchester – a Frontier Town…with a Dash of the Wild West!

Lectures John Flood, director of Big Legends and a PHW board member, will soon regale us with unusual and lesser-known tales of bygone days in this spotlight of Winchester’s historic places, people, and events. Don’t miss this PHW Lunch and Learn Lecture – it is sure to be fascinating!

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016
Time: Noon-1 PM
Place: June E. Jeffrey Education Center at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent Street, Winchester, VA. The Education Center is at the upper parking lot, in the addition closest to the Winchester Star building.
Cost: Free!
RSVPs: Appreciated but not required.

Parking: There is no off-street parking available at OakCrest. On-street parking is limited and metered. We recommend utilizing the George Washington Autopark at 131 N. Kent St.

Questions? phwi@verizon.net or 540-667-3577

Coming Soon: Two Historic Lectures on Winchester History

LecturesIf you were able to attend the Mount Hebron Cemetery App introduction, you may have already marked your calendar for Saturday, April 2, 2 PM at the Handley Library, 100 W. Piccadilly St., for the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society’s Annual Meeting. Tim Youmans will speak about the development and history of the streets in Winchester, including the origins of their names. His research expanded Dr. Quarles’ earlier history to include over 500 named streets.

PHW will follow shortly after with our next Lunch and Lecture of 2016, “Winchester – a Frontier Town…with a Dash of the Wild West!” Presented by John Flood, Director of Big Legends, the lecture will cover five segments of unusual and lesser-known tales of bygone days in this spotlight of Winchester’s historic places, people, and events. The lecture will be held April 7, noon-1 PM at OakCrest Companies, 126 N. Kent St.