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Loudoun County ( / ˈlaʊdən /) is in the northern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. In 2020, the census returned a population of 420,959, [3] making it Virginia's third-most populous county. The county seat is Leesburg. [4] Loudoun County is part of the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV ...
The Loudoun Resolves was a resolution adopted by a committee in Loudoun County in the colony of Virginia on June 14, 1774, during the very early stages of the American Revolution. It was the one of the earliest public declarations objecting to the Intolerable Acts , passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts Colonists for conducting and ...
Furnace Mountain is the tallest peak of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. It rises steeply from the southern banks of the Potomac River across from Point of Rocks, Maryland and continues southward for 1 mile (1.6 km), reaching an elevation of 891 feet (272 m) before falling to a gap between it and an unnamed peak of 800 feet (240 m ...
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Potomac River (north) Broken Hills (south) Coordinates. 39°13′58″N 77°44′06″W. / 39.2328799°N 77.7349929°W / 39.2328799; -77.7349929. [1] Traversed by. State Route 7, U.S. Route 50. The Loudoun Valley is a small, but historically significant valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains located in Loudoun County in Northern Virginia in ...
20160 [1] Lincoln is a historic unincorporated village in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, located approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Purcellville. It was established as the community of Goose Creek during the 1750s by Quaker settlers and renamed "Lincoln" for the president of the same name, shortly after his election in 1860.
By the 1830s Unison was the 4th largest town in Loudoun County. Yardley Taylor, writing for Joseph Martin's Gazetteer of Virginia in 1835, used the old name "Union" to identify Unison and counted 25 dwellings, 3 houses of worship, a school, 2 general stores, a blacksmith, and a tavern. Among the 135 inhabitants there were a number of ...
Leithtown, Virginia. / 39.01333°N 77.75889°W / 39.01333; -77.75889. Leithtown is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia. Leithtown lies to the west of Goose Creek at the crossroads of Foxcroft, Pot House, and Mountville roads. It is the home of the Foxcroft School and saw cavalry action in the Battle of Middleburg and ...