About Leesburg, Virginia

Leesburg is a town of 48,250 people and the county seat of Loudoun County, at the foot of Catoctin Mountain near the Potomac River. Sometime before 1755, Nicholas Minor bought land where the Old Carolina Road crossed the Potomac Ridge Road, and he opened a tavern at the corner. When Loudoun County was formed in 1757, Minor named the handful of buildings around his tavern George Town, after the British king.

A year later the colonial council picked the crossroads as the site of the county courthouse, and the little village began to grow. Minor laid out six crossing streets on 60 acres, and on October 12, 1758, Virginia's General Assembly made the land the town of Leesburg. The name most likely honors Thomas Lee, and two of his sons, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Phillip Ludwell Lee, were among its early trustees. Leesburg has been the county seat ever since, and its historic district joined the National Register in 1970.

“Zion, recognized as the oldest continuing African American Methodist congregation in Virginia, traces its origins to the Old Stone Church, established in Leesburg in 1766.”
Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources
  • Safe keeping in 1812During the War of 1812, the British Army forced the federal government to flee Washington. Its records came to Leesburg for safety, among them the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and portraits of early leaders such as Benjamin Franklin. When the Capitol was rebuilt after the war, workers used Potomac marble cut from quarries just south of town.
  • Victory at Ball's BluffEarly in the Civil War, Confederate troops won the Battle of Ball's Bluff on the Potomac, 2 miles northeast of the town center. One of the country's smallest national cemeteries now marks the field.
  • A courthouse never burnedAfter the Battle of Mile Hill just north of town, Robert E. Lee occupied Leesburg in September 1862. The town changed hands many times and served as a base for Col. John S. Mosby's Raiders, yet its courthouse was never burned. The present courthouse dates from 1894.
  • General Marshall's homeGeorge C. Marshall, the World War II general behind the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe, owned Dodona Manor in Leesburg from 1941 until he died in 1959. He also received the Nobel Peace Prize. The radio star Arthur Godfrey lived here too, and he gave the land for the town's first airport.

Find your street

Names on the Leesburg map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks3

  • Virts Corner
  • Ida Lee Park
  • Union Cemetery

Streets and roads135

  • East Market Street
  • South King Street
  • Leesburg Bypass
  • North King Street
  • West Market Street
  • Dry Hollow Road
  • Edwards Ferry Road Northeast
  • Masons Lane Southeast
  • Sycolin Road Southeast
  • Fort Evans Road Northeast
  • River Creek Parkway
  • Battlefield Parkway Northeast
  • Tennessee Drive
  • Battlefield Parkway
  • Battleway Parkway Southeast
  • Catoctin Circle Northeast
  • Russell Branch Parkway Southeast
  • Potomac Station Drive Northeast
  • Evergreen Mills Road
  • Northeast Plaza Street
  • Meade Drive Southwest
  • Alpine Drive Southeast
  • Catoctin Circle Southwest
  • Balls Bluff Road Northeast
  • Country Club Drive Southwest
  • North Street Northeast
  • Harrison Street Southeast
  • Marshall Drive Northeast
  • Athena Drive Southeast
  • Hope Parkway Southeast
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  • Bonnie Ridge Drive Northeast
  • Kincaid Boulevard
  • Tolbert Lane Southeast
  • Davis Avenue Southwest
  • Lake View Way Northwest
  • Menlow Drive Northeast
  • Battlefield Parkway Southeast
  • Fairview Street Northwest
  • Clubhouse Drive Southwest
  • Macalister Drive Southeast
  • Barksdale Drive Northeast
  • Greenway Drive
  • Balls Bluff Road
  • Bradfield Drive Southwest
  • Kenneth Place Southeast
  • South Street Southeast
  • Hunton Place Northeast
  • Evergreen Mill Road
  • Miller Drive Southeast
  • Old Waterford Road
  • Duncan Place
  • Curtin Place
  • Masons Lane
  • Plaza Street Southeast
  • Church Street Northeast
  • Beauregard Drive Southeast
  • Battelfield Parkway Northeast
  • Ayr Street Northwest
  • Lawson Road Southeast
  • Evergreen Mill Road Southeast
  • Santmyer Drive Southeast
  • Belmont Drive Southwest
  • Odyssey Park Drive Southeast
  • Heritage Way Northeast
  • Lawford Drive Southwest
  • Rhonda Place Southeast
  • Oakcrest Manor Drive Northeast
  • Prospect Drive Southwest
  • Gateway Drive Southeast
  • Morven Park Road Northwest
  • Clagett Street Southwest
  • Birch Street Northeast
  • Compass Creek Parkway
  • Wirt Street Southwest
  • Trailview Boulevard Southeast
  • Wildman Street Northeast
  • Mayfair Drive Northeast
  • Fortress Circle Southeast
  • Themis Street Southeast
  • Oaklawn Drive Southeast
  • Harle Place Southwest
  • Loudoun Street Southeast
  • Belleville Drive Northeast
  • Wirt Street Northwest
  • Glade Fern Terrace
  • Wilson Avenue Northwest
  • Classic Path Way Southeast
  • Ashton Drive Southwest
  • Saddleback Place Northeast
  • Wage Drive Southwest
  • Miller Drive
  • Lee Avenue Southwest
  • Leeland Orchard Road
  • Keokuk Terrace
  • Roy Court Southeast
  • Mosby Drive
  • Clove Terrace
  • Patrice Drive Southeast
  • Tavistock Drive Southeast
  • Loudoun Street Southwest
  • Hague Drive Southwest
  • Fox Ridge Drive Southwest
  • Deermeadow Place Southwest
  • Phillips Drive
  • Jared Square Northeast
  • Chancellor Street Southwest
  • Hutchison Place
  • Diskin Place Southwest
  • Cattail Lane Northeast
  • Nathan Place
  • Stowers Lane Southeast
  • Vail Mountain
  • Shiloh Place Southeast
  • Compass Crk
  • Oak View Drive
  • Haupt Square
  • Cochran Mill Road
  • Cornwall Street Northwest
  • Woods Edge Drive Northeast
  • Catoctin Circle Southeast
  • Old Waterford Road Northwest
  • Moore Place Southwest
  • Appletree Drive Northeast
  • Governors Drive Southwest
  • Whitney Place Northeast
  • Stoneledge Place Northeast
  • Kinnaird Te Northeast
  • Featherstone Lane Northeast
  • Ida Lee Drive Northwest
  • Kincaid Boulevard Southeast
  • Shanks Evans Road Northeast
  • Queen Street Northeast
  • Prince Street Northeast
  • Hawks View Square
  • Ebaugh Drive

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