[#:  Decrease.]

An especially great increase in the total value of farm property will be noted in the decade from 1850 to 1860.  Then followed the Civil War with its great destruction of farm property, and from this disaster the County did not fully recover before 1890.

The average value per acre of all farm property in Loudoun increased from $32.18 in 1850 to $35.22 in 1890.

TABLE II.—­Value of farms with improvements, including buildings, with increase and per cent of increase, by decades:  Summary 1850 to 1900.

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-+------------+---------
Census  |    Value of    |   Increase in   |  Per cent  |   Average  | Average
year.   |     farms.     |     decade.     |     of     |  value per |  value
|                |                 |  increase. |    farm.   |per Acre.
--------+----------------+-----------------+------------+---

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1900    | $9,138,560 00  |     $518,830 00 |       6.0  | $4,691 25  | $29 11
1890    |  8,619,730 00  |   [#]911,524 00 |    [#]9.6  |  4,741 33  |  29 23
1880    |  9,531,254 00  | [#]1,345,752 00 |   [#]12.4  |  5,177 22  |  31 89
1870[##]| 10,877,006 00  |      368,795 00 |       3.5  |  8,785 95  |  39 37
1860    | 10,508,211 00  |    2,158,840 00 |      25.9  |  8,706 06  |  35 48
1850    |  8,349,371 00  |                 |            |  6,647 59  |  28 33
--------+----------------+-----------------+------------+---

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[##:  Values in gold.]

[#:  Decrease.]

In 1900 there were only two counties of Virginia with higher farm values than Loudoun.  They were Rockingham, with $11,984,440, and Augusta, with $11,464,120.

TABLE III.—­Value of land and buildings, with the per cent of the total represented by the value of buildings, June 1, 1900.

Land and improvements (except buildings) $6,649,690 00
Buildings 2,488,870 00
          
                                  -------------
  Total $9,138,560 00
Per cent in buildings 37.4

TABLE IV.—­Number of farms and number and per cent of those with buildings, June 1, 1900, with average values of land and buildings.

Number of farms: 
  Total 1,948
  With buildings 1,933
  Per cent with buildings 99.2
Average value of—­
  Land, per farm $3,414 00
  Land, per acre 21 18
  Buildings, per farm 1,278 00
  Buildings, per farm with buildings 1,288 00

TABLE V.—­Total and average value per farm of farm implements and machinery, with increase and decrease and per cent of increase and decrease in the total value, by decades:  Summary 1850 to 1900.