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Leesburg
Loudoun County, Virginia
Quick Facts:
- Zip Code: 22075
- Population: 28311
- Avg. Household Income: 68861
- Avg. Commute Time: 27.9 min
- Sales Taxes: 5%
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Description
The largest Civil War battle, the Battle of Ball's Bluff, took place in Leesburg in 1861. A part of the battlefield, now the 168 acre Ball's Bluff Regional Park, is open to visitors today. Today, Leesburg is considered one of the fastest growing town in Loudoun County.
The area has a considerable range of housing types ranging from historic townhouses to newly developed condominiums. Like much of its surrounding areas such as Sterling, Reston and Dulles, the area's growth brings in a lot of corporations and companies such as the Federal Aviation Association. Residents can travel via nearby Route 7 or take the ferry across the Potomac River to Poolesville in Maryland.
County Description
Loudoun County constitutes a part of the five million acre Northern Neck of Virginia Proprietary granted by King Charles II of England to seven noblemen in 1649. This grant, later known as the Fairfax Proprietary, lay between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. Between 1653 and 1730, Westmoreland, Stafford and Prince William Counties were formed within the Proprietary, and in 1742 the remaining land was designated Fairfax County.
In 1757, by act of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Fairfax County was divided. The western portion was named Loudoun for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun, a Scottish nobleman who served as Commander-in-Chief for all British armed forces in North America and titular Governor of Virginia from 1756 to 1759.
Leesburg has served continuously as the County Seat since 1757.
Loudoun County spans 517 square miles of land and is about 25 miles west of Washington, DC. For more than two centuries, agriculture was the dominant way of life in Loudoun County, which had a relatively constant population of about 20,000. That began to change in the early 1960s, when Dulles International Airport was built in the southeastern part of the county. The airport attracted new businesses, workers and their families to the area.
At the same time, the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area began a period of rapid growth. Major road improvements made commuting from Loudoun County much easier, attracting more and more people to the eastern part of the county. In the last three decades, the population of Loudoun County nearly quadrupled.
Today, Loudoun County is a growing, dynamic county of about 200,000 people. Loudoun is known for its beautiful scenery, rich history, healthy diversity of expanding business opportunities, comfortable neighborhoods, and high quality public services. Loudoun is home to a number of businesses and corporations such as America Online, MCI, Independence Air, and Loudoun Hospital Center.