Between the Hills is a region of the Loudoun Valley in Loudoun County, Virginia, that lies west of Short Hill Mountain and east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Loudoun Valley is a small but historically significant Valley located in Loudoun County in northwestern Virginia in the United States Loudoun County (ˈlaʊdən "LOUD-un" is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is part of the Washington Metropolitan Short Hill Mountain is a Mountain Ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Loudoun County, Virginia. The Blue Ridge, or Blue Ridge Mountains, is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division The area includes the communities of Neersville and Loudoun Heights. Neersville is an Unincorporated community in northwestern Loudoun County, Virginia, USA. Loudoun Heights is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
State Route 671, Harpers Ferry Road, runs north-south through the region from its southern terminus at Virginia State Route 9, Charles Town Pike, west of Hillsboro, to its northern terminus at U.S. Route 340, south of the Sandy Hook bridge over the Potomac River and east of Harpers Ferry. State Route 9 is a major east-west primary State highway in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County Virginia, United States. Hillsboro may refer to a number of places in Virginia: Hillsboro King and Queen County Virginia Hillsboro Loudoun County Virginia US Route 340 is a spur of US Route 40. It currently runs for 156 miles (251 km from Frederick Maryland at U The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid- Atlantic coast of the United States.
During the American Civil War, a Between the Hills resident, John Mobberly, gained notoriety as a Confederate guerrilla. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South John W Mobberly, also known as John Mobley or Morbly ( June 1, 1844 &ndash April 5, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 Guerrilla warfare is the unconventional warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes raids etc During the last two years of the war, he successfully disputed control of the area through his daring exploits, until his assassination outside of Neersville in April 1865.
References
Scheel, Eugene M. Loudoun Discovered: Communitites, Cornors and Crossroads, Vol V. Waterford, The German Settlement and Between the Hills. The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library; Leesburg, Virginia 2002.