{"id":8061,"count":1,"description":"Taylorstown is a small community in Loudoun County, Virginia, built on the banks of Catoctin Creek and the surrounding hillside, about two miles (3\u00a0km) south of the Potomac River. First settled in 1734, it holds two of the oldest standing houses in Loudoun County, \"Hunting Hill\" and \"Foxton Cottage\", directly across the Catoctin Creek from each other.\nThe [[Taylorstown Historic District (Taylorstown, Virginia}|Taylorstown Historic District]], comprising the core of the village, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 1978 and expanded in 2005.\nThe first resident of the Taylorstown area was Richard Brown, a devout Quaker who arrived in the 1730s from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to establish a mill. Finding Catoctin Creek to be the ideal location, he acquired a large parcel of several hundred acres of farm and woodland which ranged from the Potomac south to Lincoln. In 1734, Brown constructed a small house that would later bear the name of Hunting Hill, and...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/taylorstown\/","name":"Taylorstown","slug":"taylorstown","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/8061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}