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Roads
Loudoun County has a fairly good system of roads.
Most of the
important places in the county can be reached by means of improved
However, we must realize that there are miles of bad roads
roads.
in the county which need improvement.
There are three main roads in Loudoun that come under the State
Highway System.
One of these, No. 36 of the State System, enters
the county at Pleasant Valley, a little town on the boundary line be
tween
Loudoun and
Fairfax counties.
This
road
runs
northwest to
on to Middleburg.
This is an improved hard-surface
Besides, the
road.
It is the main route for tourists in the county.
road is used for hauling cream and other farm products
to Wash
Aldie
and
ington. At Middleburg, No. 36 runs into Fairfax County and leads
to Upperville, which is on the boundary line between Loudoun and
Fauquier. The road from Middleburg to Upperville closely follows
the line between the two counties.
Between the above mentioned
points the road is improved but not hard-surfaced.
About one mile southeast of Aldie, a branch of State Highway No.
36, road No. 32, leads east to Leesburg through
Oatlands.
It con
tinues through Leesburg to Point of Rocks, Maryland, by way of
Lucketts.
The distance from Aldie to Leesburg is about 12 miles,
Leesburg
and from
to Point of Rocks about 14 miles.
A section of
road No. 325 goes from Leesburg to Hamilton by way of Clarke's
Gap.
It
for about two miles outside of Leesburg.
The
remainder of the road to Hamilton is unimproved.
From Hamilton
to Purcellville, a distance
of three miles, the road is improved.
From Purcellville to Bluemont the road is unimproved.
This branch
is
improved
Leesburg to Bluemont is a
of road
No.
325 from
but a large part of it needs repair and improvement.
data we find that there
in Loudoun County.
are about
57
miles
of State
State
Road
From these
Road improved
There are also several county improved roads in Loudoun.
The
and most important of these is the road from Dranesville to
Leesburg. The road enters Loudoun a short distance northeast of
longest
in
It is about 17 miles long. There is also a county
road from Purcellville to Hillsboro but this road is in great
need of repair.
There is also a county improved road between Wa
terford and Paeonian Springs. This road is in bad condition at pres–
Dranesville.