Bluemont, Virginia

Bluemont is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County in the U.S. state of Virginia. Bluemont is Loudoun's westernmost village and is located near the free city of Round Hill on the Countygrenze for Clarke County.

The county town of Leesburg is 26 km away, the capital of Washington, DC is located approximately 95 kilometers east of Bluemont.

Bluemont was founded at the beginning of the 19th century under the name Snickersville and grew only slowly during the 19th century. During the Civil War a battle between the Confederate guerrilla leader John S. Mosby and Union troops took place near instead of Bluemont.

Bluemont was the head station of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. On July 4, 1900, the operation was extended to Bluemont. The village was touted as a cool refuge in the mountains for the heat- stricken Washington.

Mount Weather, a supernatural system of the U.S. government for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ) is located near Bluemont. It is believed that there is a underground facility is in Mount Weather, in the event of nuclear war, the U.S. government should put there.

Today is held annually the Bluemont Fair in September. The exhibition offers visitors classical leisure entertainment, among other traditional and country music. Artisans offer their crafts and antiques, and there are fresh and dried flowers, farm products and cooking and Beizwettbewerbe.

There are also in Bluemont the Great Country Farms, an exceptional farm that has open from March to October and a large selection of fruits and vegetables has that you can pick your own. In addition, one finds there special weekend events such as the one month lasting pumpkin picking in the fall, when there are also racing pigs. In Great Country as a petting zoo there.