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LOUDOUN BY THE NUMBERS ■■ 520 square miles ■■ 2017 population: 398,080 ■■ Projected 2025 population: 459,580 ■■ Median Household Income: $134,464 ■■ Jobs: 164,831 ■■ Average Commute Time: 33 minutes ■■ By race: 68.4 percent white; 19.4 percent Asian; 13.9 percent Latino; 7.9 percent black ■■ Median Age: 35.9
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Loudoun County has been shaped by many people over its 261-year history. You pass by some of their names every single day. They are immortalized on road signs, school campus, parks and buildings. In this year’s Discover Loudoun community guide we take a look “behind the name” on a few of those. The starting point should be the name of Loudoun County itself. The land that is today’s Loudoun County was little more than a Native American crossroads when England’s King Charles II doled out the 5-million-acre Northern Neck of Virginia Proprietary to seven noblemen in 1649. The land stretched from the Potomac to the Rappahannock and, by 1730, was carved into Westmoreland, Stafford and Prince William counties. In 1742, Fairfax County was established. Fifteen years later, the Virginia House of Burgesses split Fairfax and named the western portion in honor of John Campbell. The territory didn’t become Campbell County, however. Instead, the name was generated by Campbell’s title, the fourth earl of Loudoun. While the Scottish nobleman served as commander-in-chief British armed forces in North America and as titular governor of Virginia from 1756 to 1759, PMhe never actually set foot in Loudoun County.
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The Board of Supervisors
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he Loudoun Board of Supervisors has nine members, representing eight election districts and a chairman elected by voters countywide. Supervisors serve four-year terms and all run for office in the same year. The election districts are adjusted each decade to maintain approximately equal populations; currently, there are two large western districts covering the county’s rural west and the transitional area, and six smaller districts covering Leesburg and the county’s populous east. In the most recent election in 2015, Loudoun elected its second female chairman at large, its first two black supervisors, and its youngest-ever supervisor. Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) follows only Chairwoman Dale Polen Myers, who served from 1996 to 1999, as female chairman at large. Randall was also the first black woman elected to chair a Board of Supervisors in Virginia history. The most recent election also saw big turnover on the board; five of the nine supervisors are first-term supervisors. Three supervisors are military veterans. The board meets at least three times each month except for August. The board meets at 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month, holds a public hearing on the Wednesday of the week following the first meeting, and holds a second business meeting on the Thursday of the week following the public hearing. This schedule is adjusted around some hol-
idays. Meetings of the Board of Supervisors are held in the boardroom at the government center at 1 Harrison St. in downtown Leesburg and are open to the public. The county also televises board meetings on Comcast government channel 23, Verizon FiOS channel 40, and open band channel 40, and webcasts meetings at Loudoun.gov/webcasts. The board has three standing committees. Board members serve as appointed by the chairwoman on the Finance/Government Operations and Economic Development Committee, the Transportation and Land Use Committee, and the Joint Board/School Board Committee, which includes all nine supervisors. Since 2008 supervisors have been paid a $41,200 annual salary. The vice chairman, elected by his colleagues on the board, is paid $45,320. The chairman makes $50,000. Last year, supervisors narrowly voted to increase salaries of the next board, a 62 percent increase over the current salaries. That pay increase will take effect when the next Board of Supervisors takes office in 2020. Supervisors will be paid $66,826; the vice chairman will be paid $73,363; and the chairman will be paid $81,100. Thereafter, the next board will receive two percent pay increases for each remaining year of their four-year term.
CHAIRWOMAN Phyllis J. Randall
Phyllis.Randall@loudoun.gov Chairwoman Phyllis J. Randall (D-At Large) began public service with volunteer work in Loudoun County Public Schools. She worked for more than 15 years as a mental health therapist working with substance abusing offenders in an adult detention center. Randall serves on all three board committees, as well as on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Dulles Area Transportation Association, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, and the Rt. 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission, and the Loudoun County Disability Services Board. She is the current chairman of the Virginia State Board of Corrections. She has a husband and two college-aged sons. She was born in Denver, CO, and lives in Lansdowne. Staff aides: Bo Machayo Bo.Machayo@loudoun.gov Laura TeKroney Laura.TeKroney@loudoun.gov Elizabeth Bennis Elizabeth.Bennis@loudoun.gov
VICE CHAIRMAN Ralph M. Buona, Ashburn Ralph.Buona@loudoun.gov Vice Chairman Ralph M. Buona (R-Ashburn) is in his second term as the Ashburn District supervisor. A former Air Force captain, he concluded his service at Air Force Space Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, where he managed software development related to early warning missile defense systems. He has worked at Telos Corporation since 1984 and is now the company’s senior vice president of corporate business development. He serves on the board’s Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee, as well as the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Climate, Energy and Environment Policy Committee, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority’s Planning Coordination Advisory Committee, and is the Board’s representative on the Loudoun County Fiscal Impact Committee, the Other Post-Employment Benefits Investment Committee and the Length of Service Awards Program Committee. This year, he announced he will not seek re-election, bringing to a close a career on the Board of Supervisors that saw major decisions like comSUPERVISORS >> 6
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The Board of Supervisors << FROM 4 mitting to bring Metrorail to Loudoun County. Buona has served on the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce board of directors since 2005, and is active in trade organizations including the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council, the Air Force Association, the Navy League, the Army Association, and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He was born in Ashtabula, OH, and lives in Ashburn’s Carisbrooke neighborhood with his wife. He has two children and three grandchildren. Staff aide: Dorri O’Brien Dorri.OBrien@loudoun.gov
SUPERVISOR Suzanne M. Volpe, Algonkian
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Suzanne.Volpe@loudoun.gov Supervisor Suzanne M. Volpe (R-Algonkian) is in her second term in office, as well as her second term on the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee. She represents the board on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Chesapeake Bay and Water
Resources Policy Committee. She also is the board’s representative on the Loudoun County Disability Services Board and the Affordable Dwelling Unit Advisory Board. She has worked both for the federal government and the private sector, specializing in communications, public affairs, marketing and event planning. She has previously served on the Loudoun County Library Board of Trustees, the Loudoun Arts Council, the county Commission on Aging, and the Planning Commission, among other postings. She was born in Vienna and lives in Cascades with her husband and daughter. Staff aide: Josh Fornwalt Josh.Fornwalt@loudoun.gov
SUPERVISOR Tony R. Buffington Jr., Blue Ridge Tony.Buffington@loudoun.gov Supervisor Tony R. Buffington Jr. (R-Blue Ridge) works in federal law enforcement in Washington, DC. He serves on the Finance, Government Services
and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee, is one of Loudoun’s two representatives on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission and represents Loudoun on the Coalition of Loudoun Towns. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of Police’s Loudoun-Dulles Lodge #69; the Loudoun County Marine Corps League, Detachment #1205; and the Dulles South Alliance. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, Buffington grew up in Berryville and last year moved from Brambleton to Purcellville.
the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. The board’s youngest-ever Loudoun supervisor, Meyer was elected at 26 years old. He is Director of Business Development for MediaDC, the parent company of the Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard. Before that, he ran his own public relations firm in Northern Virginia, Springboard Media Strategies LLC, and was a spokesman for the conservative nonprofit Young America’s Foundation in Herndon. Meyer lives with his wife and daughter at One Loudoun in Ashburn.
Staff aides: Shevaun Hochstetler Shevaun.Hochstetler@loudoun.gov Rachael Holmes Rachael.E.Holmes@loudoun.gov Robin Bartok Robin.W.Bartok@loudoun.gov
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SUPERVISOR Ron A. Meyer Jr., Broad Run Ron.Meyer@loudoun.gov Supervisor Ron A. Meyer Jr. (R-Broad Run) serves on the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Air Quality Committee, and
SUPERVISOR Geary M. Higgins, Catoctin Geary.Higgins@loudoun.gov Supervisor Geary M. Higgins (R-Catoctin) is in his second term as the Catoctin District supervisor. He serves as co-chair of the Joint Board of Supervisors/ School Board Committee and is chairman of the board’s Transportation and Land Use Committee. He represents Loudoun County on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’ Human Services and Public Safety Committee, the Potomac Watershed Roundtable, and serves as the Board’s representative on the Loudoun County Agricultural District Advisory Committee and the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He is the vice president of Labor Relations for NECA Inc. and is an arbitrator for the Industrial Relations Council. He previously served on the Loudoun County School Board and is a member of the Loudoun Museum Board of Trustees. Higgins was born in Baltimore, MD, and grew up in Montgomery County, MD. He and his wife live near Waterford and have three daughters and three grandsons. Staff aides: Stacy Carey Stacy.Carey@loudoun.gov Mikayla Feil Mikayla.Feil@loudoun.gov Liz Dickinson Liz.Dickinson@loudoun.gov
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Matt.Letourneau@loudoun.gov Supervisor Matthew F. Letourneau (R-Dulles) is a second-term supervisor and chairman of the board Finance, Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development
Committee. He serves as vice chairman representing Virginia on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Board of Directors, represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, and is chairman of the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission. Letourneau is senior director of Communications and Media for the Institute for 21st Century Energy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining the Chamber, he was the Republican communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and press secretary to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. He is originally from Shrewsbury, MA. He and his wife and four children live in Little River Commons near South Riding. Staff aides: Tom Parker Tom.Parker@loudoun.gov Jared Midwood Jared.Midwood@loudoun.gov
SUPERVISOR Kristen C. Umstattd Leesburg Kristen.Umstattd@loudoun.gov
Roundtable. She served on the Leesburg Town Council from 1992 to 2016, and as Leesburg mayor from 2002 to 2016. She has previously served as president, Virginia Association of Planning District Commissions; chair, Northern Virginia Regional Commission; Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; Northern Virginia Transportation Coordinating Council; Dulles Area Transportation Association; chair, Towns’ Association of Northern Virginia; Coalition of Loudoun Towns Advisory Committee; Loudoun Hospital Executive Council; trustee, Journey Through Hallowed Ground; and Commander, American Legion Post 34. A former Naval Reserve lieutenant, she joined the Central Intelligence Agency after leaving the Naval Reserve to translate Soviet naval documents into English. She served on the Leesburg Town Council from 1992 to 2016. She served as Leesburg mayor between 2002 and 2016, when she resigned to take office as county supervisor. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she and her husband and daughter now live in Leesburg. She and her husband practice law in Leesburg.
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SUPERVISOR Koran T. Saines, Sterling Koran.Saines@loudoun.gov Supervisor Koran T. Saines (D-Sterling) serves on the Finance, board’s Government Services and Operations Committee and Economic Development Committee and represents Loudoun on the Northern Virginia Manpower Con-
sortium Workforce Investment Board. He also serves as one of Loudoun’s representatives on the Route 28 Transportation Improvement District Commission and is one of the Board’s representatives on the Family Services Board. He works in human resources at Washington Gas. He has previously served as an election officer, including as chief election officer in 2014. Saines was born in Fairfax and attended Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He and his son live in Chatham Green. Staff aides: Omar Masood Omar.Masood@loudoun.gov
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Supervisor Kristen C. Umstattd (D-Leesburg) is serving her first term on the county board. She serves on the board’s Transportation and Land Use
Committee, and is one of the board’s representatives on the Annexation Area Development Policy Committee, the Family Services Board, and the Potomac Watershed
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Constitutional Offices
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he county’s Board of Supervisors grabs most of the headlines, but there are five elected constitutional officers who also have a big impact on the county’s quality of life. They are elected by voters countywide and serve somewhat independently of the general county government, although their office staffing, expenditures and revenues are included in the general county budget. Each officer serves a four-year term, except for the Clerk of the Circuit Court, who serves an eight-year term.
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Clerk of the Circuit Court Gary Clemens was first elected as the Clerk of the Circuit Court in 2000 as the first Republican to hold the office. He is in his third eight-year term. The clerk serves as the recorder of deeds and probate judge, issues marriage licenses and is the official court administrator for all civil and criminal court cases. The clerk’s office creates and maintains all court files and records, prepares court orders and jury lists, contacts jurors and issues summons and court processes. The office has a staff of 49 full-time equivalent personnel and a $4.6 million budget. This office is also projected to create $18 million in revenues in Fiscal Year 2019.
Commissioner of the Revenue Robert Wertz has worked for the county for almost 25 years, including as the Commissioner of the Revenue since 2003. The Republican took over following the retirement of Kitty Ashby, a Democrat, who held the post from 1985 to 2003. The commissioner of the revenue is the chief tax assessing officer in the county, responsible for assessing real estate, individual and business tangible personal property, machinery and tools, business licenses, short-term rental, transient occupancy, public service corporation, and bank franchise taxes. The commissioner also provides state income tax assistance and administers the tax relief program for the elderly and disabled. The commissioner’s office has a staff of 74 full-time equivalent positions and a $8 million budget.
Commonwealth’s Attorney James Plowman has served as Loudoun’s Commonwealth’s Attorney since 2003. His office represents the people of Virginia in prosecuting criminal cases, ranging from the most serious felonies, including murder, rape, and robbery to misdemeanors and violations of local ordinances, including traffic offenses. Plowman oversees a staff of 36 full-time equivalent positions and a $4.1 million budget.
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Pictured above: Loudoun County’s Constitutional Officers; from left: Sheriff Mike Chapman, Commissioner of the Revenue Bob Wertz, Clerk of the Circuit Court Gary Clemens, Commonwealth’s Attorney Jim Plowman, and Treasurer Roger Zurn.
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Mike Chapman is serving his second term as county sheriff. The office provides all law enforcement services, including investigating crimes, pursuing offenders and making arrests. The sheriff also maintains the local jail, manages other local corrections programs and transports criminal defendants to and from corrections facilities. The office provides courthouse security, serves legal papers, summons jurors and witnesses, and executes court judgments. The office includes 731 full-time equivalent positions and an $89.4 million budget.
H. Roger Zurn is the county’s longest serving constitutional officer, first elected to the post in 1996 after representing the Sterling District on the Board of Supervisors. The treasurer is the chief financial officer for the county, collecting taxes and local fees and making payments on behalf of the local government. The office is responsible for all forms of revenue that come to the locality including taxes, permit fees and fines. The treasurer also manages the investment of local funds and maintains records of local finances. The office includes 51 full-time equivalent positions and a $6.2 million budget.
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NAMES Harry Flood Byrd Sr.
The main artery of Loudoun’s roads, Rt. 7, is named for former state senator, governor, and U.S. senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. from the Shenandoah River in Clarke all the way to the Fairfax County line. And the road’s namesake is as influential and important in Virginia’s history as he is controversial today. Byrd made his living as a newspaper publisher, toll road operator, and orchard owner. His father bought the Winchester Star in 1903, and the family owned that and several other newspapers in the Shenandoah Valley until the Byrd family sold all its newspapers to Ogden Newspapers of West Virginia, which also owns the Loudoun Times-Mirror in Loudoun. He served in the state senate from 1916 to 1926, as the 50th governor of Virginia from 1926 to 1930, and as a U.S. Senator from 1933 to 1965. When he retired from the senate, then-governor Albertis S. Harrison Jr. appointed his son, Harry F. Byrd Jr., to the seat. Byrd’s time in state government is known for shrinking and streamlining state government, building good roads, stimulating economic growth, a $4 million surplus in the state treasury, and the first gas tax set aside to pay for roads. But he is best known for his time
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in the U.S. Senate, when he was a leading opponent to racial integration. He lead the idea of “massive resistance,” a set of laws designed to prevent school integration that resulted in many Virginia schools being closed and a long aftermath of practical racial segregation in school. Byrd died of a brain tumor in 1966, eleven months after leaving the U.S. Senate.
Gilbert’s Corner, circa 1950
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ropean settlers developed Little River Turnpike and the Old Carolina Road , The intersection continued to be a major thoroughfare during the Civil War, as Confederate and Union soldiers passed through on their way to area battles, like the battle of Upperville in June 1863 and the battle at Mt. Zion Church in 1864. In the years following the war, William Gilbert bought the land and eventually built a gas station there in 1927. At that time, the Old Carolina Road formed a dogleg with Rt. 50. It wasn’t until 1941 that the road was rerouted to form the present-day Rt. 15/Rt. 50 intersection, which now routes drivers through with a traffic circle.
General Assembly and U.S. Congress, spearheaded the construction of the Little River Turnpike, now Rt. 50. This encouraged westward expansion. It was at that time that Mercer and William Cooke financed the construction of the Aldie Mill, which used water from the Little River to turn wheat into flour for commercial export and was once the largest factory of its kind in the county. According to Tracy Gillespie, the historic site manager for the Aldie Mill Historic Park, Mercer simultaneously developed a village around the mill, giving it the name Aldie in honor of his family’s ancestral home of Aldie Castle in Scotland. “The village [evolved] out of the fact,” Gillespie said. Still standing in Perthshire today, the castle was built between the 15th and 17th centuries. As for the mill, Mercer bought out Cooke’s interest in 1816 for $11,250 and sold it off to a new family two decades later. After six generations of operation, the mill closed in 1971 and was acquired by NOVA Parks in 2006.
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Gilbert’s Corner Gilbert’s Corner is known as a great place to stop on a Saturday to get some fresh produce or barbecue, but passersby probably don’t know much about the intersection’s namesake William Gilbert. The crossroads was created centuries ago by Native American footpaths. Eu-
Nestled along the southern border of Loudoun County is the Village of Aldie—a community whose existence and history is often overlooked. The village was first settled in the eighteenth century by the Mercers, a Scottish family. In the early nineteenth century, Charles Fenton Mercer, a distinguished member of the Virginia
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head of the Radiology Department at George Washington University Hospital in 1930. He eventually returned to lucrative private practice, retiring in 1956. He then went into the field that would allow him to have such an impact: real estate investing. He capitalized cannily on the post-World War II real estate boom, acquiring then-undeveloped properties west of Washington, DC, many at public auction. As a self-made millionaire, the wealth he realized from those investments allowed him to make his mark on philanthropic giving in Virginia. Those include funding to build the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia; a matching grant to create the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in McLean, which is owned by the National Park Service; and in 1975, donating his home, the 18th-century Lanesville farm, to the
The engine of the Northern Virginia economy is a jet engine—the international trade, travel, and businesses attracted by Dulles International Airport. And the person for whom it is named, former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, had an even greater impact on international affairs in the aftermath of World War II. Dulles was an uncompromising, harsh figure in international politics who shaped U.S. policies during the Cold War. He served on the War Industries Board in World War I and entered international politics as legal counsel for the U.S. at the 1919 Paris peace conference. He went on to advocate for U.S. membership in the League of Nations, helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter, and was at three-time delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. Dulles is best known for his time as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, characterized by his passionate opposition to communism. He focused
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on strengthening international mutual security pacts like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, strategic use of economic foreign aid, and oversaw two clandestine operations to overthrow democratically-elected leaders: in 1953 in Iran, and in 1954 in Guatemala. He was a pioneer of the concepts of massive retaliation and brinksmanship, pushing negotiations to the brink of war and counting on the Soviet Union to blink first. He resigned from office in 1959, suffering from colon cancer, and died later that year. He was part of an influential family; his grandfather and uncle both preceded him as Secretary of State, and his younger brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, served as the Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961.
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The name Dr. Claude Moore comes up time and again among Loudoun institutions—in Claude Moore Park, at the county’s Claude Moore Recreation Center, and at the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation, a major feature in the region’s nonprofit scene. Outspoken conservationist, physician, real estate tycoon and philanthropist Claude Moore was born in impoverished Danville, growing up in Radford and graduating from high school in Roanoke. He took two years of pre-medical courses at Roanoke College before enrolling at the University of Virginia in 1912. There, he balanced football and academics for four years. He went on to intern at Cornell Medical Center, and in 1917, as the U.S. prepared to get involved in World War I, he volunteered and joined the Army Medical Corps. He shipped out in 1918, serving as a first lieutenant, and remained in France for a year after the armistice, rising to the rank of Captain. He then returned to private practice in Roanoke in 1920. In 1926, he sought additional training at the Mayo Clinic in radiology, and upon graduating became a professor and
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he Town of Leesburg operates under the council-manager form of government, which divides responsibilities between an elected mayor and Town Council and an appointed town manager. The council determines town policy, adopts all ordinances and resolutions, sets the annual tax rates and adopts an annual budget based on a staff-prepared draft. The town manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of town affairs, implementing the Town Council’s policies, and hiring a staff to assist in that work. The Leesburg Town Council has seven members. The mayor serves a two-year term, while all other council members are elected for four-year terms. Council member terms are staggered, with three seats filled each election cycle. Elections occur in November of even-numbered years. Council members are paid an annual stipend of $15,600. The mayor is paid $16,200 per year.
Kelly Burk, Mayor
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Email: kburk@leesburgva.gov Kelly Burk is serving her first term as Leesburg mayor. She is running for re-election in November. Burk was first elected to the Town Council in 2004 and, three years later, she was elected as the Leesburg District representative to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. She served on the county board from 2008 to 2011. She re-joined the Town Council following an April 2012 special election, and was re-elected to a new four-year term in 2014. She was elected to her first mayoral term in November 2016. Burk represents the town on the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority Advisory Committee, and Virginia Municipal League’s Human Development and Education Committee. A Leesburg resident since 1979, Burk was a special education teacher with Loudoun County Public Schools until her retirement in 2014. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from George Washington University and a master’s degree in middle school curriculum and instruction from Virginia Tech. She is a past president of the Loudoun Education Association and served on the board of directors of the Virginia Education Association from 1994 to 2000. In 2001, the Loudoun Commission on Women honored her as the Woman of the Year for Education and Training. She and her husband, Larry, have two adult sons and two grandchildren.
Suzanne Fox, Vice Mayor Email: sfox@leesburgva.gov Suzanne Fox was elected to the Town
Council in November 2014, for a four-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2015. She is running for re-election in November. Fox was elected by her peers to serve as vice mayor in January 2017. Fox is the council’s representative to VML’s Planning Coordination Advisory Board (PCAC) and is council liaison to both the Board of Architectural Re-
view and the Airport Commission. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from Brigham Young University. Fox is the owner or co-owner of Legacy Weddings, a wedding planning/coordinating business; and Beacon Hill Manor, a wedding venue in Loudoun County which she operates with her husband, Bill. She is also a civil celebrant, appointed by the Loudoun County Circuit Court. and has performed more than 7,000 marriage ceremonies. She and her family, which includes three adult daughters, moved to Leesburg in 2003.
Fernando “Marty” Martinez Email: mmartinez@leesburgva.gov Marty Martinez was elected to his first term on Town Council in 2002 and served as vice mayor from July 2004 to June 2006. He is serving his fourth, four-year
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[ L E E SBU R G ] << FROM 12 the Loudoun County Transit Advisory Board. Before his election to council, he served on the Loudoun County Parks and Recreation Commission, as well as the Loudoun County Community Services Advisory Board. Originally from California, Martinez is a U.S. Air Force veteran. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in economics and computer science from Portland State University. Martinez has worked as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration. He founded Heritage High School Project Grad, and helped to co-found the Boys and Girls Club of Loudoun County and La Voz, a Hispanic advocacy group. He has served as the vice chairman on the board of directors for the Paxton Campus, which is a full-service organization for children with special needs. He has also been appointed by the governor to serve on the Aerospace Advisory Council. He has lived in Leesburg with his wife, Doris, and children since 1993. Martinez has five children and five grandchildren.
Thomas S. Dunn, II Tom Dunn was first elected to the Town Council in 2008, and is serving his third, four-year term. He is chal-
Ronald Campbell Email: rcampbell@leesburgva.gov Ron Campbell was elected to his first Town Council term last November. Prior to his election to council, he served on the Leesburg Technology and Communications Commission and the Leesburg Environmental Commission. He also
served on two Virginia state task forces on sexual violence, one dealing with institutions of higher education and one with K-12 schools, led by then Lt. Governor Don Beyer. Campbell represents the council on VML’s Community and Economic Development Committee. He is also a member of the Loudoun County NAACP and Leesburg Daybreak Rotary, and formerly served on the Loudoun County Criminal Justice Board. Campbell has a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Heidelberg University, and a master’s degree in counseling, human services and guidance from Montclair State University. In addition, he has completed doctoral coursework in human sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania. He became a certified planning commissioner in May. Campbell started his career with a Wall Street firm, and was a licensed SEC representative, providing wealth management strategies and selling mutual funds. He went on to work in higher education administration for over 27 years, including as the associate vice president for Student Development and Athletics at the University of Minnesota where he was responsible for a budget of over $100 million. In 2000, he established his own business development consulting company, College Business Concepts, LLC. From TOWN COUNCIL >> 14
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lenging incumbent Kelly Burk and fellow council member Ron Campbell for the mayor’s seat in November. Dunn serves as one of the town’s two members of the joint town and county Annexation Area Development Policy Committee. He has represented the town on various committees with Virginia Municipal League. In addition he has represented the town on the Government Center Joint Task Force, the School Naming Committee, and the Law Enforcement Committee. He also served as liaison to the Board of Architectural Review, the Parks and Rec Commission, the Balch Library Commission, the Infrastructure subcommittee and the Tourism Historic Preservation subcommittee. Dunn also served a four-year term on the Loudoun County Planning Commission as the Leesburg District representative from 2011-2015. Prior to being elected to the council, Dunn served on the Leesburg Planning Commission and the Leesburg Economic Development Commission for a combined 9 years. Dunn holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Mary Washington College. He is a Certified Planning
Commissioner and has 16 years’ experience in mortgage banking. He is currently the president of VCR Inc., a marketing company he founded. Dunn was recently certified as an inhome special needs service provider. He served eight years as an Officer of Combat Engineers with the U.S. Army. Dunn has been and continues to be an active community volunteer, having held various volunteer positions with the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Loudoun School of Ballet, Little League, Youth Football, church and Ball’s Bluff PTO. He directed youth summer camps at Morven Park, Oatlands and the Loudoun Museum and has volunteered as a tour guide at Balls Bluff Battlefield. Dunn has been a Leesburg resident in Potomac Crossing since 1998, and has three children who all attended public school in Leesburg.
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2012 to 2015, he served as the CEO for the National Association of College and University Auxiliary Services in Charlottesville. He currently serves as the executive director of the Loudoun Freedom Center, which is dedicated to the preservation of African American history in Loudoun County. Campbell is a member of Holy & Whole Life Changing Ministries International Church in Lansdowne. Leesburg residents since 2001, Campbell and his wife Barbara have four children and six grandchildren.
Vanessa Maddox vmaddox@leesburgva.gov Vanessa R. Maddox was elected to the Town Council in a special election last November. She is running for re-election this November. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Maddox began her career in politics and information technology as an after-school intern on Capitol Hill when she was in the 11th grade. Since then, she has worked for the U.S. Congress, federal government agencies and federal contractors in the private sector. In 2008, she founded V.R. Maddox Consulting, a Certified Virginia SWaM (Small, Woman and Minority-owned) business specializing in social media education and integration, new business coaching, employment recruiting and referrals, and professional development. In 2010, she founded the #GetHired Employment Community. Maddox previously served on the Leesburg Economic Development Com-
mission and the Leesburg Technology & Communications Commission. She holds a bachelor’s degree in management from the University of the Potomac. Maddox and her family have lived in Leesburg since 2004.
Joshua Thiel Email: jthiel@leesburgva.gov Josh Thiel was elected to Town Council in a special election in February. He fills the term vacated by Ken Reid upon his resignation last year. His term will expire Dec. 31, 2020. Thiel is an 18-year town resident and previously served on the town’s Economic Development Commission and on the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He is an active member of Leesburg Presbyterian Church in downtown Leesburg, and helps run the youth group and men’s group. Thiel attended Saint Francis University where he received his bachelor’s degree in marketing and communications. At Saint Francis, he was a second team All-American place kicker and a four-year starter for the Red Flash football team. Thiel is the owner of JT Kicking and Training, which helps high school and college athletes train to play at the next level of sports. He coached soccer and football at Tuscarora High School and was a youth football coach for the AYFL for a number of years. Thiel and his wife Abigail live in the Crescent Place neighborhood with their dog Odie.
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Leesburg It’s a common misconception that the Town of Leesburg is named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Not so. In 1757 the Assembly of Virginia selected what would become the Town of Leesburg for the location of the Loudoun County courthouse. The land was then owned by Nicholas Minor, who hired John Hough to survey and plat his 60 acres into 70 lots to form a town, which he called George
Town in honor of King George II. The name was changed to Leesburg the following year, in honor of the prominent Lee family of Virginia. Philip Ludwell Lee and Thomas Lightfoot Lee, along with Minor, were the three initial town trustees responsible for regulating building in the town. The two younger Lees named the town Leesburg in honor of their late father, Col. Thomas Lee, who was once a member of the House of Burgesses and served as de facto governor of Virginia in place of the absent William Gooch for a brief period in 1749. He was favored for appointment to the governor’s post by George II, but died the following year. Col. Lee had inherited or acquired vast holdings in land throughout Virginia, including Northumberland, Charles, Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William and Loudoun counties. These properties were developed as tobacco plantations.
Thomas Balch The Thomas Balch Library has become a destination for historical and genealogical research, drawing residents inside and out of the county. But who’s the man behind the name? Thomas Balch was a Leesburg native, born in the town July 23, 1821. He would go on to become a noted American historian, perhaps best known for his work on the American Revolutionary War. He is referred to in historical lore as the “father of international arbitration” for his work in popularizing
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years, the library operated under a private board of trustees as a subscription library under the endowment. In 1960, it became a free public library and was desegregated five years later. It became part of Loudoun County Public Library system in 1974. In 1994, after the opening of the larger Rust Library, the Town of Leesburg took ownership of the building, to be operated as a history and genealogy library.
A bust of Thomas Balch on display in Leesburg's Thomas Balch Library
the peaceful mechanism of international dispute resolution. Balch and his wife, Emily Swift Balch, had three children and lived in Europe from 1859 to 1873, during which time he conducted research for several of the books and articles. His two most notable works are “The French in America during the War of Independence,” which explores France’s role in the American Revolution, and “International Courts of Arbitration,” which was written in the aftermath of the sinking of the Alabama during the Civil War. He died in 1887 in Philadelphia. When the library was constructed in 1922 as a memorial to Balch, his sons, Thomas Willing Balch and Edwin Swift Balch, originally endowed the subscription library. For its first 50
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garet Dole Rust under the conditions that the land be kept in perpetual use as a public park and that it be named in memory of Williams. Rust’s grandmother, Ida Lee Rust. It’s another link between the town and the Lee family. She was the daughter of Edmund Jennings Lee, first cousin of Robert E. Lee. Ida Lee Rush spent her married life at Rockland; the Rust family home north Leesburg and later lived in a house built by her sons on Cornwall Street.
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AV Symington Every summer thousands of kids flock to Leesburg’s A.V. Symington Aquatics Center to frolic in Loudoun’s largest outdoor public pool. That fun was made possible by the generosity of a woman who spent many hours swimming laps nearby at the Ida Lee Park Recreation Center’s indoor pool. And that wasn’t the only lasting gift Symington gave to Loudoun’s families. Valeria Marie Harris was born in 1916, part of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank family. She married James Huntington Symington and they bought the Temple Hall estate north of Leesburg in 1940. A decade after her husband’s death, Symington donated
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the 286-acre farm to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. When Symington died in 2003, she bequeathed $10 million to support several community causes. That included $2.5 million each to the Ida Lee Recreation Center, Rust Library and Temple Hall Farm Park, and $1.25 million to both the Loudoun Country Day School and Oatlands Plantation. In addition to the outdoor pool complex, the money donated to Leesburg was
used to create the Ida Lee Park’s indoor tennis center.
Paxton Campus The sprawling Paxton campus has, over the years, become a beacon of service for the less fortunate and those with special needs. Over the past century, the campus at 601 Catoctin Circle served as everything from an orphanage, convalescent center, and daycare. The Arc of Loudoun is a nonprofit
formed by a group of parents in 1967 whose children had special needs. In addition to the preschool that formed at its inception, the Paxton Campus and Arc of Loudoun hosts a growing list of programs that include Open Door Preschool, The Aurora School, ALLY Advocacy Center, Step Up, and Maggie’s Closet. The popular “Shocktober” haunted house is a major fundraiser for many of these programs. All that may not have come to pass were it not for the property’s namesake, Rachel Paxton. She and her husband, Charles Paxton, arrived in Leesburg in 1869, purchasing 765 acres on the northern edge of town. Their home, the lavish 20,000-square-foot Carlheim mansion, was ready for occupancy three years later. There Charles and Rachel raised their only child, daughter Margaret. Rachel Paxton outlived both her husband and daughter, who died in 1899 and 1900, respectively. She would devote the rest of her life to helping needy children and wanted her efforts to continue after her death. Prior to her passing in 1921, she had a vision to turn her home and property into a safe and welcoming environment for underprivileged families, and the mansion was first transformed into an orphanage, known as the Margaret Paxton Memorial for Convalescent Children. The Paxton Memorial Trust, founded under the last will of Rachel Paxton, continues to serve Loudoun’s needy children through various initiatives.
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oudoun’s nine-member School Board oversees the county’s 81,000-student school system. Board members are paid a salary of $20,000 per year and the chairman is paid $22,000. They serve four-year terms, and their current terms ends Dec. 31, 2019. The board holds regular business meetings at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the school administration office, 21000 Education Court in Ashburn. Meetings can be watched live through webcasts. Members of the public can email the full board at lcsp@lcps.org or email individual board members.
Jeff Morse, Chairman
Dulles District Phone: 571-420-2243 Email: jeff.morse@lcps.org
ly re-elected him chairman for a second consecutive year. He serves as chairman for the board’s Communications and Outreach Committee, and as member on the Finance and Facilities Committee and the Joint Board of Supervisors/School Board Committee. He is also the board’s liaison for the Loudoun Education Foundation and the Washington Area Boards of Education. His wife, Karen, works as a kindergarten assistant in Loudoun County Public Schools. The couple has three children educated by LCPS; one currently attends an LCPS High School, and the other two are graduates: one who attends Virginia Tech, and one who graduated this year from Virginia Tech.
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Sterling District Residence: Sterling Phone: 571-233-0307 E-mail: brenda.sheridan@lcps.org Brenda Sheridan is serving her third year as vice chairwoman and her seventh year on the board. She is chairwoman of the board’s Legislative and
Eric DeKenipp
Catoctin District Phone: 571-291-5685 Email: eric.dekenipp@lcps.org Eric DeKenipp is in his third year on the School Board. He serves as chairman of the board’s Finance and Facilities Committee, and is a member of the Human Resources and Talent Development Committee and the Joint Board of Supervisors/ School Board Committee. He is also the
Eric Hornberger
Ashburn District Email: eric.hornberger@lcps.org Phone: 571-291-5685 Eric Hornberger is serving in his second term on the School Board representing the Ashburn District. He served as the board’s chairman from 2012 until January 2017. He chairs both the board’s Charter School Committee and Ad Hoc Committee on the Academies of Loudoun, and is also a member of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee and Legislative and Policy Committee. He also serves as the board’s alternate representative on the Gifted Advisory Committee. Hornberger joined the board with a variety of local and international experience. He served as the president of the Ashburn Farm Association board of
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year resident of South Riding and is in his second term on the School Board. He served on active duty in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, retiring as a commander in 2006. He is a lead associate for Booz Allen Hamilton, managing and procuring technology and services for the federal government. In January, his colleagues on the board unanimous-
Policy Committee and serves on the Charter School Committee, Discipline Committee, Finance and Facilities Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education. She is also the School Board liaison on the Gifted Advisory Committee and is a Virginia School Boards Association delegate. Sheridan is a 20-year resident of Sterling and is in her second full term as a School Board member. She was appointed to the seat in 2011 to finish out a term of a previous board member, before being elected the following year. She and her husband have two children; one is attending Christopher Newport University, one attending the College of William & Mary and both graduated from Park View High School.
board’s liaison on the School Business Partnership Executive Council. He is a Marine Corps veteran and had more than 15 years of experience in business leadership, currently serving as a vice president for a mission critical government contractor in Northern Virginia. He and his family are 12-year Leesburg residents and his two daughters, 12-year-old Ava and 9-year-old Alexa, attend Simpson Middle School and Evergreen Mill Elementary School.
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trustees and as a leader in the citizens advocacy group Ashburn Farm Parents United. He works as the executive director of The Mustard Seed Foundation, a private family foundation based in Falls Church. In that role he oversees a variety of international giving programs and was responsible for establishing field offices for the foundation in Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Cairo. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and worked as a program manager at Peace Corps in Washington, DC. He and his wife, Paula, have lived in Ashburn since 2004. Paula works as a teacher for Loudoun County Public Schools. The couple has three children who have either graduated from or are currently attending Loudoun County Public Schools.
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At-Large Member Phone: 571-233-9928 E-mail: beth.huck@lcps.org Beth Huck is serving her first term on the board. She serves as chairwoman of the board’s Human Resources and Talent Development Committee and Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education. She is a member of the Communications and Outreach Committee and the Legislative and Policy Committee. She is the board’s liaison on the Head Start Policy Council and the alternate delegate on the Virginia School Boards Association. Huck works as an events manager for Blue Compass LLC. Prior to that she worked as the community lifestyle manager for Brambleton Community Association and, for several years, taught early childhood education. She also served as the chairwoman of the Loudoun County Youth Advisory Commission. Huck and her husband, Aaron, live in Brambleton and have two children, who both attend Rock Ridge High School.
She’s worked in the information technology field for the past 20 years, holding positions at Marriott and at AOL. She has a daughter who graduated from Briar Woods High School. She has lived in Broadlands for 17 years and in the Washington metro area for more than 40 years. In that time, she’s volunteered for the Girl Scouts, Sterling Playmakers, Loudoun Hunger Relief, Women Giving Back and Big Brothers Big Sisters. She also served as vice president of the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents, known as LEAP.
has previously worked as a teacher, guidance counselor and guidance director. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. Marshall was born in Washington, DC, was raised in Alexandria, and has lived in Leesburg for the past 27 years. He and his wife, Barbi, have a grown daughter who graduated from Loudoun County High School and a grown son, who graduated from Tuscarora High School.
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Tom Marshall was first elected in 2007 and returned to the School Board in 2016 following a four-year hiatus, when he was unseated for one term by Bill Fox. He serves as co-chairman of the Joint Board of Supervisors/School Board Committee, and is a member of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee. He is also the board’s liaison for the Career and Technical Education Foundation and an alternate on the Special Education Advisory Committee. Marshall has worked as a Realtor in Virginia since 1998 and currently works for McEnearney Associates Realtors. He
Debbie Rose is serving her second term on the School Board. She is the chairwoman of the Discipline Committee, and is a member of the Student Support and Services Committee and the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Education. She is also the board’s liaison to the Special Education Advisory Committee. She works as an intellectual property fellow for the Association for Competitive Technology. She also worked at the Entertainment Software Association and as a counsel on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. She previously served as a District Chair of the Loudoun County Republican Committee.
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Joy Maloney is in her first term on the board. She unseated one-term board member Kevin Kuesters in her second try for the seat in November 2015, after running a write-in campaign in 2011. She chairs the Student Support and Services Committee, and is a member of the Communications and Outreach Committee, and the Discipline Committee. She is the board’s alternate liaison on the Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee and its liaison on the Technology Steering Committee. A former high school teacher, Maloney holds a master’s degree in educational leadership and a bachelor’s in secondary education mathematics.
Blue Ridge District Phone: 571-420-3818 Email: jill.turgeon@lcps.org Jill Turgeon taught second grade at Cool Spring Elementary School before she was elected to the School Board in 2011. She owns a photography business and is active in a variety of civil and community organizations. She is chairwoman of the board’s Curriculum and Instruction Committee. She serves on the Charter School Committee and the Human Resources and Talent Development Committee. She is also the School Board liaison on the Minority Students Achievement Advisory Committee. Turgeon’s family has spent a lot of time in Loudoun County Public Schools. Her husband, Bill, teaches in the school system, their oldest daughter graduated from Loudoun Valley High School in 2010, their youngest daughter graduated from Woodgrove High School in 2013 and their son graduated from Woodgrove in 2015.
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Kenneth W. Culbert grew up in Loudoun County and taught in its public school system for many years. He was known for his unflagging optimism. Culbert started his educational career as a biology teacher at Loudoun Valley in 1963. He went on to serve as principal of Seneca Ridge Middle School, Park View, Loudoun County and Loudoun Valley high schools. He retired as principal of Loudoun Valley in 2003, after fighting bad health for several years. He died two months later on Dec. 5, 2003.
Banneker Elementary The school was named after Benjamin Banneker, who constructed the first clock made entirely in America in 1753, and who was part of the surveying team who laid out the city of Washington, DC, in 1791. When the school was integrated in 1968, the school board wanted to change the name from Banneker to Mercer, but the St. Louis community asked the board to keep the Banneker name. After due deliberation, the board decided to keep the original name.
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A memorial to Sgt. Major John Champe sits in a pasture near Aldie in western Loudoun near John Champe High School. Champe was a Revolutionary War soldier who became a double agent in a failed attempt to capture the American traitor Gen. Benedict Arnold.
is still remembered for her kindness, gentleness and her relentless pursuit of excellence.
John Champe High School John Champe, born in Aldie about 1752, was handpicked by George Washington and Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee to become a double agent during the Revolutionary War in an effort to capture Benedict Arnold. Arnold deserted to British forces in exchange for about 20,000 pounds, equivalent
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to about $3 million today. Champe’s plan to capture Arnold failed because Arnold was ordered the day before to move to a British naval ship bound for the Chesapeake Bay. “So people ask me, why name a school after John Champe when he didn’t succeed in his plan,” Principal John Gabriel said at the school’s dedication ceremony in 2012. “It’s the fact that he accepted that mission. That took courage … and it takes courage to take a challenging class, to attend a new school, to step out on that athletic field every Friday. Loudoun Now option3 copy.pdf
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Frederick Douglass Elementary/Douglass School These two Leesburg schools were named after the American social reformer, abolitionist, writer, and statesman who escaped from slavery in Maryland. Douglass School opened in 1941 after the county’s black families raised money to purchase land for the school when the Loudoun School Board refused to do so. The school served Loudoun’s black students until court-ordered desegregation in 1968. Next door, Frederick Douglass Elementary is the second school on the site just off Plaza Street in Leesburg to go by that name. The first opened in 1958 to serve 9/20/18 5:57 PM black elementary students. Principal Fred Drummond said
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Rosa Lee Carter taught for many years in Loudoun County, including at the two-room, Grant School, which served black students in Middleburg. The school was crowded for many years, so Carter helped convince the School Board to rent the basement of nearby Shiloh Baptist Church. Students in grades first and second were taught in the church basement until Banneker Elementary opened in 1948. Carter taught at Banneker until she retired in 1978, after a 47-year career. She
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career at 16 as a student bus driver at Loudoun County High School and was honored in 2008 for 40 years of service. “Tens of thousands of Loudoun’s young people are better for having been served by J. Michael Lunsford,” former Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III said at the school’s opening ceremony in 2010.
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A bust of abolitionist Fredrick Douglass sits on a table at Douglass School in Leesburg.
The middle school, which opened in 1976, is named after J. Lupton Simpson, an educator in Loudoun for 39 years. He was principal and taught at
Waterford, Ashburn, Lucketts, and Lincoln schools. In 1954, he became assistant principal at the new Loudoun County High School and remained there for 12 years, until his retirement. He died in 1967.
Mercer Middle School The middle school, which opened in 2004, is named after Margaret Mercer, the progressive educator and abolitionist who established St. David’s Episcopal Church in 1841. Mercer, the daughter of John Francis Mercer, a Maryland governor who also represented Virginia in the Continental
Congress, purchased the Belmont Plantation in 1836. She established a boarding school, using the tuition from families who could afford to pay to attend the school to educate those who could not. In addition to freeing the slaves she inherited from her father, Mercer was a founder of the African Resettlement movement.
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in a 2012 interview with Leesburg Today that he was tasked with leading the school through desegregation in 1968. “It was a good day,” he said. “It was something I’d waited a long time for.” Drummond died in 2017, but was present at the new Frederick Douglass’ dedicate ceremony when it opened in 2012.
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Emerick Elementary Emerick Elementary, which opened in 1967, is named after Oscar L. Emerick, Loudoun County Public Schools’ superintendent from 1917 to 1957. Emerick and his wife, Carrie, were longtime Purcellville residents. Carrie Emerick is famous for being the first woman in Loudoun County to pay her poll tax and qualify to vote following the passage of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment in 1920.
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Newton-Lee Elementary Newton-Lee, which opened in 2005, honors the memory of two Loudoun County residents, Christopher Newton and Dong Chul Lee, who died at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Newton, a third generation Californian, was a few weeks into the process of moving his family and business to Virginia when his plane was hijacked. Lee worked in the U.S. Air Force for four years and for the National Security Agency for 14 years. At the time of his death, Lee was working as a program manager in government information and communication systems for the Boeing Company.
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There is only one Loudoun figure whose community service has been memorialized with a name of a school, a road, a building and a bridge. John W. Tolbert Jr. was born in Charlestown, WV, in 1905. He came to Loudoun in 1931 to be the chef for D. D. Sands, the president of Middleburg Bank. In 1976, he was appointed to a seat on the Town Council and served for 14 years, never missing a meeting and serving as vice mayor for two years before his retirement in 1990. His leadership helped the town achieve Tree City USA status and the John W. Tolbert Environmental Achievement Award is presented annually by the town. He served on the vestry of St. James Episcopal Church, as president of the Kiwanis Club, president of the Loudoun NAACP, on the board of the American Red Cross, president of Keep Loudoun Beautiful; chairman of Loudoun’s Community Corrections Resources Board. John W. Tolbert Jr. Elementary School is located in Leesburg’s Potomac Station neighborhood. The John W. Tolbert Jr. is a 225-year-old structure that was moved from Loudoun Street to 108 Church St. in 1990 to make room for the construction of the Town Hall complex. Tolbert Lane provides access to Leesburg’s Freedom Park. The John W. Tolbert Jr. bridge carries Battlefield Parkway traffic over the Dulles Greenway.
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zel Reid, also known as Miss Fannie, worked for the Loudoun Times-Mirror, first as a secretary, then as a reporter, editor and associate publisher. Reid worked with the newspaper for 73 years and worked hard to study and preserve the history of Loudoun County.
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to a farm in Ashburn, when it was a rural village. He and his wife, Gracie, sent five children to Loudoun schools and opened a family business, Weller Tile & Mosaics in Ashburn. Weller was a volunteer firefighter and often helped in the schools. He sponsored youth sports teams and volunteered with the Boy and Girl Scouts.
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Willard Intermediate School This school, which opened just a month ago, is named after the unincorporated village of Willard in southeastern Loudoun, who’s namesake is Joseph E. Willard, Virginia’s lieutenant governor in the early 1900s. The village at Willard was made up of former
slaves and their descendants. In 1958, all 87 Willard-area landowners had their property condemned by the federal government for the development of Dulles Airport. Sources: Loudoun County Public Schools, Thomas Balch Library and Leesburg Today archives.
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Steuart W. Weller was a business owner and longtime county resident known unofficially as the “Mayor of Ashburn.” In the late 1950s, he moved
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amilton’s history dates to the native American Indian era, before European settlers moved in in the 1730s. The settlement was first known as Harmony. The town changed its name to Hamilton Store, after store owner Charles Bennett Hamilton—and simplified to Hamilton when a post office was established in his building. A road built in the early 1830s connecting Leesburg and Snickersville (today’s Bluemont) triggered the town’s first growth spurt. After the Civil War, construction of the railroad from Alexandria in 1868 brought tourists seeking relief from the summer heat and humidity in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD. At its height, the town had a dance hall, two newspapers, a butcher’s shop, men’s clothing store, a broom factory, a hat shop, a dentist, two hardware stores, livery stable and a one-and-ahalf-mile boardwalk throughout the town. A fire in 1926 wiped out most of the commercial center of town. The rebuilt commercial area along Colonial Highway today contains the town office and several stores.
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oasting a pristine assemblage of 18th and 19th century stone architecture, the Quaker settlement of Hillsboro long has been one of the smallest towns in Virginia. That changed last year, when a boundary line adjustment tripled the town’s size to 164 acres. Initially known as “The Gap,” the town recorded beginning in 1746, although settlers had arrived earlier. It is nestled between two hills on the busy turnpike (today’s Rt. 9) between Alexandria to the Shenandoah Valley. In pre-Civil War times, the road helped fuel the town’s economic prosperity; today the town’s Main Street is filled with commuters to the Northern Virginia job market. Once a flourishing mill town, Hillsboro experienced an economic decline during and after the Civil War, especially during The Burning Raid of November 1864 that destroyed numerous farms and buildings in Loudoun Valley. Today, Hillsboro is the center of a thriving rural industry, surrounded by bed and breakfast inns, wineries and breweries. Next year, construction is set to begin on a major traffic calming, streetscape improvements and utility system upgrade on Rt. 9.
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s its name suggests, Middleburg was a half-way, “middle-town” location on the Ashby Gap trade route (today’s Rt. 50) between Alexandria and Winchester. Founded in trade, it remains that way today—even though the numerous mills that surrounded it up to the Civil War are gone, and the former thriving agricultural trade has given way to high-end boutiques, retail stores and many restaurants and cafés. The town was laid out by American Revolutionary War Lt. Col. Leven Powell, who purchased land in 1763 from George Washington’s cousin, Joseph Chinn. Its international reputation for its equestrian offerings, began with wealthy New York foxhunters, steeplechasers and sportsmen looking for land from which to pursue their favorite sports came south. The town also is a regional tourism and shopping destination anchored by the Red Fox Inn, originally established in 1728 as Chinn’s Ordinary that cited as the oldest continually operated inn in the country, and the 168-room Salamander Resort and Spa.
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ovettsville has its roots with a group of 60 German families who pushed south from Pennsylvania in the early 1730s. They settled in what became northern Loudoun County when it was created in 1757. The town continues to celebrate is heritage as the “German Settlement,” most notably with its annual Oktoberfest and the distinctive architecture of its new Town Square center that features a clock tower and plans for a Glockenspiel. The town took its name from David Lovett, a descendant of one of the original families, who sold quarter-acre lots that started a building boom in the 1820s. Today, Lovettsville is experiencing a new building boom, with new subdivisions and an influx of new businesses in and around the Town Center section of town.
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urcellville’s first known settler was ■ Population: 9,771 James Dillon, who arrived in 1764. ■ Households: 2,725 Ordinaries were established, followed by a store and post office opened by ■ Median Age: 34 Valentine Vernon Purcell, for whom the town ■ Mayor: Kwasi Fraser was named in 1853. ■ Council: Vice Mayor The most significant factor in the town’s Ryan Cool, Joel post-Civil War growth was the arrival of rail Grewe, Tip Stinnette, service that extended westward in 1874. The Ted Greenly, Nedim growing settlement was incorporated in 1908. Ogelman, Chris Bledsoe The town was hit by disastrous fires between 1900 and 1914, destroying most of the wooden ■ Council Meetings: 7 p.m. second and fourth structures in the downtown business district on Tuesdays at the Town 21st Street. Hall, 221 S. Nursery In the latter part of the 20th century, the town Ave. saw big changes. The railroad ceased running in the late 1960s. Agriculture ceased to be the main ■ Stipend: Mayor, plank in its economy as more and more resi$7,025 per annum; dents left the farms for employment elsewhere. Councilmembers, But the town experienced a huge spurt of pop$6,050 each per annum ulation growth in the early 2000s, tapering off ■ Town Manager: David over the past few years. Mekarski North 21st Street began to see a revival of downtown stores and the town government acquired the Bush Tabernacle and Fireman’s Field, and the former Train Station— all now placed under protective easements. And, in a return to its standing as the agricultural hub of western Loudoun, Purcellville now is at the center of the region’s thriving winery industry and home to three—soon to be four—craft brewery enterprises, as well as the Catoctin Creek Distillery.
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Purcellville In the early 1800s, Valentine Vernon Purcell took over management of a local store in the settlement that had been founded by James Dillion in 1764. Soon the community was known as Purcell’s Store. In 1822, Purcell became the postmaster of the region. In 1852, as Purcell’s son, Edgar Rodney Purcell, took over as postmaster, the town was also officially named Purcellville in honor of the family. According to Kacey Young, president of the Purcellville Historical Society, Edgar Rodney Purcell was removed from his position as postmaster at the start of the Civil War. Five decades later, in 1908, the town was finally incorporated.
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ettlers began arriving in what would become the Round Hill—taking its name from the 910-foot knob west of town—in the 1730s. The community hit its first growth spurt in the 1830s when the Leesburg and Snicker’s Gap Turnpike was built. The post office opened In 1858, with storeowner Guilford C. Gregg appointed the first postmaster. The arrival of the railroad in 1875 gave a the community another boost, bringing tourists from the steamy Washington, DC, metropolitan area to enjoy the hospitality of its many boarding houses. The town formally incorporated in 1900. For decades, the town’s economy centered on Hill High Orchards, where the Sleeter family grew apples and peaches and sold the fruit and pies at its country store. Starting in the 1990s residential development replaced the orchard operations around the town. Most homes are outside the town limits, but town leaders are examining expansion options that could add more than 200 homes in the short-term and one day incorporate 1,000 more that are currently served by the town’s water and sewer systems.
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Sleeter Lake Sleeter Lake, now home to an 11-acre town park, has long been a centerpiece of life in Round Hill. The creation of the lake dates back a half century, to 1963, when Army Colonel Frank Sleeter was looking for a way to irrigate his 880 acres of peach orchards west of town near his Hill High Country Store. To accomplish this, Sleeter built a dam on Simpsons Creek to create the 100-acre lake. According to Sleeter’s son, John, the lake produced millions of gallons of water for irrigation. John Sleeter said that it wasn’t long after the lake’s creation that residents started referring to it by his family name. “I think it just grew into that,” he said. The property remained in the Sleeter family until the early 1990s, when it was sold and developed into the Stoneleigh Golf and Country Club and The Villages at Round Hill. As for the town’s new waterfront park, Sleeter said his dad “would be glad to see what’s going on as a result of [the lake].”
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