Hillsboro Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Hillsboro is a small community in the northern Piedmont of Loudoun County, Virginia, set in a gap of Short Hill Mountain beside the North Fork of Catoctin Creek. Most of its buildings line Charles Town Pike and are built of local bluestone fieldstone or hewn log, giving the town a consistent color, texture and scale. Earliest surviving buildings date from about 1740, including a three-part roadhouse, and later examples include the 1875 Old Stone School and a store completed in 1930. Styles range from vernacular dwellings to Federal, Italianate and Queen Anne buildings, many combining home and business under one roof. The town grew from the late eighteenth century until the Civil War, supported by mills and trade, and declined as improved technology and new roads shifted commerce elsewhere. The last mills were razed by 1941. This updated listing adds nearby properties that show Hillsboro's role as a milling town, and recognizes its architecture and commerce between about 1740 and 1941.