LAY OF THE LAND L oudoun’s county seat is a fashionable burg with a historic downtown buzzing with craft breweries, cocktail bars, artisanal coffee shops, farm-to-fork restaurants and chic boutiques and home décor stores. Dine on oysters, tacos, homemade pastas and more on King Street, Leesburg’s “restaurant row.” Stay in a luxe Potomac River resort and soak up the storied ambiance of a town that’s been home to icons such as General George C. Marshall of Marshall Plan fame, and is now residence to artists, designers, musicians and tech entrepreneurs. Founded in 1758 at the crossroads of two Native American trails near the Potomac, Leesburg is bookended by the historic mansions and landscaped grounds of Morven Park to the north and Oatlands Historic House & Gardens to the south. Cyclists, joggers and equestrians are drawn to the Washington & Old Dominion Trail that perfectly bisects the town, while the lifestyle and residential district The Village at Leesburg attracts visitors for sidewalk dining, big screen movies and retail therapy. It’s that charming downtown though – handsome 18th-and 19th-century buildings repurposed as bars, breweries, restaurants, galleries and boutiques – that epitomizes Leesburg’s current cool. Oatlands Historic House & Gardens Dana’s Cake Shoppe 10 | VisitLoudoun.org
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