Loudoun County Real Estate Agent Jeanne Littlejohn - Serving Loudoun County and Northern Virginia Real Estate

Loudoun Real Estate

Loudoun County is a dynamic county with an outstanding quality of life, located just 25 miles from Washington, DC and covers 517 square miles. The home of Dulles International Airport and America Online, Loudoun has established a reputation as an international center for technology, communications and transportation.

Bordered by the Blue Ridge Mountains and Potomac River, Loudoun is widely known for its beautiful scenery, rich history and strong sense of community. The county also enjoys a reputation for high quality services, including a first-rate educational system.

The Town of Leesburg, the county seat, was once named for "George Town" honoring King George II. Leesburg was established in 1758 from land originally held by Lord Fairfax, then renamed for the influential Lee family of Virginia. The town was formed at the crossroads of two Colonial roads, now Routes 7 and 15, and is the seat of government for beautiful Loudoun County. Leesburg is located just 35 miles northeast of Washington, DC, at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

George C. Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan and former Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, lived in Leesburg until his death in 1959.

The Town of Middleburg, located just an hour's drive west from the Nation's Capital, is best known as the capital of Virginia's famous Hunt Country. The town was so named because it was midway on the Winchester-to-Alexandria trading route known as the Ashby Gap Road, which is now Route 50. Serving as a host community for more than 250 years, it is no surprise that Middleburg has developed such a high concentration of fine inns, shops and restaurants.

Foxhunting in Virginia began in the Middleburg area around 1748, when Thomas (the sixth Lord Fairfax) set up the first pack of foxhounds in the English manner of the present day hunts. Hunting was a casual sport enjoyed by the local families until the first hunt, the Piedmont, was organized in 1905. Today there is ten active hunts in the Hunt Country proper.

The John Singleton Mosby Heritage Area is remarkable not only for its history and natural beauty, but also because it retains so much of the landscape and landmarks of three centuries of our past. Native Americans followed the buffalo along what is now Route 50, the John S. Mosby Highway. Quakers, Scotch-Irish, Germans, Africans, and Tidewater planters created a magnificent heritage of architecture and landscape which can teach us vividly about the past.

Today, Loudoun County is a growing, dynamic county of about 247,300 people. Loudoun is known for its beautiful scenery, rich history, healthy diversity of expanding business opportunities, comfortable neighborhoods like Sterling, Ashburn, Potomac Falls, and for its quality public services.