Between the Hills
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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 area includes the communities of Neersville and Loudoun Heights.
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.
During the American Civil War, a Between the Hills resident, John Mobberly, gained notoriety as a Confederate guerrilla. 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.
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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.
