Pastor Elder Wilhelm Wenner brought his "flock" to establish the German Settlement around today's Lovettsville. The colony of sixty families may have been distancing themselves from the Lutherans and Anabaptists (Mennonites, Amish, Dunkers, Brethren) in Philadelphia.
Every 18th century German farming community raised hogs and rye, cabbages and potatoes, apples and peaches.
in Loudoun County Virginia
George Wenner: Founding Farmer
Apple is used through the whole year, and when fresh apples are no longer to be had, dried ones are used. It is the evening meal of children. House pie in country places, is made of apples neither peeled nor freed from their cores, and its crust is not broken if a wagon wheel goes over it.
Dr. Acrelius, 1758
History
England, France and Spain are Colonial Powers and rivals in the New World
1722 Governor Spotswood concludes The Treaty of Albany with the Iroquois which opens the piedmont area of Virginia to settlement.
Economy 1730
(18th) Small family farms predominated, except for plantations in Southern coastal areas; housing ranged from crude log cabins to substantial frame, brick, or stone houses; farm families manufactured many necessities.
Virginia
Virginia Population: 65,000-100,000
Loudoun
1730 Population: 220
Agriculture consisted of some tobacco and grain crops
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Science
New U.S. crops from Europe included clover, alfalfa, timothy,small grains, and fruits and vegetables.
