Aldie, Virginia

Aldie is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, located on the John Mosby Highway (U.S. Highway 50) between Gilbert 's Corner and Middleburg.

Aldie was created in 1810 by Charles F. Mercer, who named his property after Aldie Castle, the ancestral home of his Scottish ancestors. In Aldie, there are some historic shops, homes, and the Aldie Mill, the only known and still existing water mill in Virginia, which was powered by two water wheels. Aldie organized annually in October, a harvest festival.

In National Register of Historic Places are the Aldie Mill Historic District with the 1807 -built water mill on U.S. Route 50, the Loudoun Agricultural and Mechanical Institute on Route 650, and the Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church ( 1851) on U.S. Route 50 entered.

Julia Beckwith Neale, mother of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was born in Aldie.

During the American Civil War Aldie and the surrounding areas to the west and northwest were the scene of the Battle of Aldie.

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