Why Protect Waterford?
There are just so many Waterfords. There are just so many National Historic Landmarks. Waterford, both the tiny village itself and its rural surroundings, must be saved from the developers whose bulldozers even now are gunning their engines. Washington Business Journal, May 1988 Waterford is a unique, non-renewable resource – once changed, it will be lost forever. Why we live in Waterford ยป In the late 1960’s, Waterford citizens and the Waterford Foundation became concerned with the danger posed to Waterford by the threat of development of the farmland around the village. Washington, D.C. was growing. The 45-mile distance was no longer an effective barrier to “progress” which translated to the subdivision of land and the building of new homes. In 1970, the year of Waterford’s designation as a National Historic Landmark, the Foundation committed itself to the preservation of its farmland setting as well as its buildings. Soon after, it purchased two pieces of farmland: the Schooley Mill
