Middleburg, Virginia Middleburg, Virginia Town of Middleburg Aerial view of Middleburg Middleburg is positioned in Northern Virginia Middleburg - Middleburg Show map of Northern Virginia Show map of Virginia Middleburg is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
The town was established in 1787 by American Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel and Virginia statesman, Leven Powell.
When Leven Powell declined to have the town titled after him, the town was called Middleburgh, and later, simply Middleburg.
Middleburg is the home of the 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) National Sporting Library research and development office for horse and field sports, which prints Thoroughbred Heritage on the Internet.
The Middleburg Historic District, comprising the 19th-century center of town, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places are Benton, the Burrland Farm Historic District, Green Pastures, Huntland, Mill House, Gen.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.6 square mile (1.5 km ), all land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 632 citizens , 322 homeholds, and 171 families living in the town.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 16.9% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Middleburg was titled as the locale of the mysterious crop circles in the horror film spoof Scary Movie 3 (2003).
The film shows an actual map of the Middleburg area, complete with actual encircling towns and Route 15 pictured on the map.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 1994), book editor and First Lady of the United States (1961 1963); a member of the Kennedy family John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 1963), 35th President of the United States (1961 1963); a member of the Kennedy family Middleburg Eccentric: Middleburg's only locally owned and directed newspaper.
Middleburg Life: Monthly lifestyle publication/news service.
Middleburg's earliest and most respected locally owned and directed journal covering the citizens , lifestyles, and trends of the countryside.
Purcellville Gazette: Weekly newspaper, based in Purcellville, Virginia, serving Middleburg and Loudoun County.
From Middleburg Virginia book by Kate Brenner & Genie Ford, viewed at Google Books preview page 7 Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (December 1981).
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Middleburg Historic District" (PDF).
National Register of Historic Places.
"National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"Middleburg, VA Maps, Facts & Figures".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
The Middleburg Mystique: A Peek Inside the Gates of Middleburg, Virginia (2001) Capital Books ISBN 978-1-931868-02-0 www.middleburgmystique.com Civil Rights Movement in Middleburg Virginia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Middleburg, Virginia.
Visit Middleburg: official tourism site of the town of Middleburg www.townofmiddleburg.org, Town of Middleburg's official website "Middleburg Historic District", at The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising nationwide awareness of the history in the region from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia Municipalities and communities of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States Virginia Towns in Virginia
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