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2 unusual facts about Loudoun County


Chuck Caputo

He represented the 67th district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun Counties.

George's Schoolhouse Raid

A little more than a week later, on January 12, members of the 35th were attending a party in Hillsborough, when they were surprised by the Unionist Loudoun Rangers, leaving one dead and two captured.


Armistead Thomson Mason

He then moved to Loudoun County, Virginia where he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifteenth Congress (1817).

Isaiah L. Potts

Isaiah L. Potts (1784?- after 1843) was born in Loudoun County, Virginia and lived in Union County, Kentucky and Hardin County, Illinois.

John Tolbert

He was the first black man to run for public office in Loudoun County, Virginia, John Tolbert later served on the Leesburg Town Council for 14 years, from 1976 to 1990, and never missed a meeting.

Loudoun County High School

In 2010, Tuscarora High School opened up and took County's Lucketts area students.

Naming rights

For example, in honor of the more than $60 million donated over the years by one donor to the National Air and Space Museum properties, the directors of the Smithsonian Institution chose to name its satellite facility in Loudoun County, Virginia after the donor, calling it the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Northern Virginia Scholastic Hockey League

Freedom/John Champe Eagles/Knights

Richard E. Parker

He died on his estate, ‘Soldier’s Retreat,’ near Snickersville (now Bluemont, Loudoun County), Virginia, September 10, 1840, and was buried in the family cemetery near Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia.

Round Hill, Frederick County, Virginia

It is often referred to as Round Hill after Round Hill (1381 ft) but this may cause confusion as there is already an incorporated town with the same name in nearby Loudoun County.

USS Oak Hill

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Oak Hill, in honor of Oak Hill plantation, the estate of James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, in Loudoun County, Virginia.

White's Ford

It was used in many major actions, including the crossing into Maryland of the Confederate army prior to the Maryland Campaign and Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart's ride around Union Major General George B. McClellan on October 10, 1862, when he used the ford to cross into Loudoun County, Virginia.


see also

Airmont

Airmont, Virginia, unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia, USA

Ebenezer Baptist Church

Ebenezer Baptist Churches, Bloomfield, Virginia, NRHP-listed in Loudoun County

Little Washington

Little Washington, Virginia, a now mostly uninhabited African American village in Loudoun County, Virginia

Virginia State Route 28

It is still known as Sully Road through this stretch, although within Loudoun County it is co-designated as Darrell Green Boulevard, after the former Washington Redskins player.