Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Waterford, VA

Waterford is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in western Loudoun County, Virginia, about 47 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. and 7 miles northwest of Leesburg.

Waterford was established around 1733 by Amos Janney, a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who purchased 400 acres on the south fork of Catoctin Creek.

Amos Janney built a grist mill and saw mill on Catoctin Creek in the 1740s, and Waterford grew into a flourishing flour milling town during the 19th century.

Janney also founded the village's Quaker meeting house in 1741, and Waterford remained a largely Quaker community for generations.

By the 1790s the village was known as Waterford, named after the city of Waterford in Ireland, where some of its founders had once lived.

In 1970 the entire village and much of its surrounding countryside were designated a National Historic Landmark District in recognition of Waterford's well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century architecture and landscape.

The population center of the United States in the 1810 census was recorded as being just northwest of Waterford.

Waterford was a Quaker village where free African Americans lived alongside white neighbors, and during the Civil War this Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia raised a Union cavalry unit, the Loudoun Rangers.

In 1943 residents formed the non-profit Waterford Foundation to preserve the village's crumbling buildings, traditions, and rural character.

The Waterford Fair, the foundation's annual homes tour and crafts exhibit, is the oldest juried crafts fair in Virginia and has grown into the single largest event in Loudoun County.