Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Things to Do and See in Ashburn and Loudoun County

Museums, Historic Sites and Tourism

Ashburn Walking Tour
Oldtown Ashburn
Ashburn,VA 20147

Belmont Chapel
(on the grounds of St. David's Episcopal Church)
19917 Ashburn Rd
Ashburn, VA 20147

Loudoun Museum - offers exhibits, special events, walking and driving tours, gardens, and museum shop. Featured site in Virginia Civil War Trails and Virginia TimeTravelers programs Morven Park
17263 Southern Planter Ln
Leesburg, VA 20176

Loudoun Convention & Visitors Association - website offers a calendar of Loudoun events and info on lodging, dining, and Loudoun's towns and villages. The LCVA operates a visitor's center in Leesburg staffed 362 days a year that provides info and visitor assistance for Loudoun. The center is also a State Certified Visitor Center offering info on other Virginia destinations Oatlands Plantation - this historic landmark, with its four acres of formal gardens, was the home of George Carter (great-grandson of colonial Virginia's renowned Robert "King" Carter) and his wife Elizabeth Grayson Carter. Work on the building and grounds started in 1804
Thomas Balch Library
208 West Market St
Leesburg, VA 20176

Ball's Bluff Regional Park
Balls Bluff Road
Leesburg, VA 20176

Aldie Mill
The mill is located on Rt 50, 1 mile west of the Rt 50 and Rt 15 intersection Lanesville Heritage Area
Claude Moore Park
21544 Old Vestals Gap Rd
Sterling, VA 20164

Lovettsville Museum
4 East Pennsylvania Av
Lovettsville, VA 20180

Mosby Heritage Area
P.O. Box 1497
Middleburg, VA 20118

Stone House at Harper Park
Rt 7 west of Goose Creek
Leesburg, VA 20176

Dodona Manor
212 East Market St
Leesburg, VA 20176

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum
Washington Dulles Int'l Airport
Dulles, VA 20166

The Naturalist Center
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
741 Miller Dr SE, Suite G-2
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 779-9712

Rust Sanctuary
Audubon Naturalist Society
802 Children's Center Rd
Leesburg, VA 20175

Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum
21668 Heritage Farm Lane
Sterling,VA 20164

Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
21085 The Woods
Leesburg, VA 20175

N American Pt-to-Pt Association
Steeplechase racing
Various VA & other locations

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Posted By: Gissel Ansari

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