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Abstract
Along the southwestern edge of Loudoun County, Virginia, lies a portion of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail stretching toward the Blue Ridge Mountains downstate. Along the northern border of the county, in areas of great natural beauty, high bluffs descend into the Potomac River. In the western portion of the county, small hamlets and a few quaint old Quaker villages are sprinkled across the countryside. Toward the south is found the heart of the Virginia hunt country with its farms and estates. But to the east of the county are precursors of a somewhat different vision, that of the burgeoning Washington, D.C., -metropolitan area. The predominately rural and the predominately suburban meet somewhere near the Dulles Airport which straddles the border between Loudoun County and Fairfax County, the only truly suburban Virginia county in the Washington region.